metasoma
Britishnoun
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Scorpions have scuttled around on Earth for around 435 million years with a flexible, segmented body part, also called a metasoma.
From New York Times
They scanned the scorpion’s metasoma using a form of CT imaging and compiled the scans to reconstruct the tail in three dimensions.
From New York Times
The tergites of this region and those of the following region, the metasoma, are fused to form a second or posterior carapace in Limulus, whilst remaining free in Scorpio.
From Project Gutenberg
XIV to XVIII, The confluent or unexpressed six somites of the metasoma.
From Project Gutenberg
Passing on now from the mesosoma we come in Scorpio to the metasoma of six segments, the first of which is broad whilst the rest are cylindrical.
From Project Gutenberg
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