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scopula

American  
[skop-yuh-luh] / ˈskɒp yə lə /

noun

Zoology.

plural

scopulas, scopulae

  1. a dense tuft of hairs, as on the feet of certain spiders.

scopula British  
/ -lɪt, ˈskɒpjʊlə, ˈskɒpjʊˌleɪt /

noun

  1. a small tuft of dense hairs on the legs and chelicerae of some spiders

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Other Word Forms

  • scopulate adjective

Etymology

Origin of scopula

1795–1805; < New Latin scōpula, Latin: a broom twig, equivalent to scōp ( a ) broom + -ula -ule

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Scopula: a small, dense tuft of hair: the bristles or stiff hairs covering the inner side of basal joint on the tarsi of pollen-gathering Hymenoptera.

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