||Ter"gum (?), n.; pl.
Terga (#). [L., the back.] (Zoöl.)
(a) The back of an animal. (b)
The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.
(c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a
cirriped.
||Ter"gum (?), n.; pl.
Terga (#). [L., the back.] (Zoöl.)
(a) The back of an animal. (b)
The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.
(c) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a
cirriped.