Definition of Metasome. Meaning of Metasome. Synonyms of Metasome

- parts: the anterior prosome, the intermediate mesosome, and the posterior metasome. The body of acorn worms is worm-shaped and divided into an anterior proboscis...
- row of large spines at the rear margin of the body segment known as the metasome. Bradford, Janet (1976). "Partial Revision of the Acartia Subgenus Acartiura...
- pereonites. The females' ovaries are on the left and right sides of their metasome, but the explicit egg sacs have never been found. Corallovexiidae contains...
- the prominent spines on the dorsal part of the posterior body segment (metasome). J. Kouwenberg (2010). T. C. Walter & G. Boxshall (ed.). "Acartia (Acartiura)...
- genital opening in the female and the presence of posterior spines on the metasome (body segment) of the male. It is found off the southern coast of Australia...
- the absence of spines on the dorsal part of the posterior body segment (metasome). Juliana Kouwenberg (2010). T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall (ed.). "Acartia...
- behavior called ‘metasomal dragging’. This means that the wasp drags its metasome or gaster, the second abdominal segment and sections posterior to it, along...
- the crescent-shaped mouth. The posterior and larger body section is the metasome and contains the metacoel. It is swollen at the base into an ampulla which...
- the presence of spines on the dorsal part of the posterior body segment (metasome). Like A. ensifera, it is found around the coasts of New Zealand, mainly...
- to easily attach their bodies to substrates by using the spines on its metasomes.[citation needed] These organisms are also able to survive out of water...