harpagone

English

Noun

harpagone (plural harpagones)

1. (entomology, usually in the plural) The clasping organ of male genitalia, one of the gonopods
   • 1981, Manual of Nearctic Diptera, volume 1, →ISBN, page 45:

     ...a pair of primitively two-segmented arms, the gonopods (claspers, forcipate claspers, anterior gonapophyses, pregonites, harpagones, parameres) arising posterolaterally on sternite 9...

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Latin

Noun

harpagōne

1. ablative singular of harpagō