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Elytron; Elytrum
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair. See Coleoptera.
2. One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids. See Chætopoda.