cephalosome

English

Etymology

From cephalo- +‎ -some.

Noun

cephalosome (plural cephalosomes)

1. (zoology) The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods.
   • 1877, Alpheus Spring Packard, A Monograph of the Phyllopod Crustacea of North America:

     we would suggest that the head of Arthropoda be termed the Cephalosome

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cephalosome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)