Usually means: Tail segment in some arthropods.
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  1. telson: Merriam-Webster
  2. telson: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. telson: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. telson: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Telson, telson: Wordnik
  6. Telson (tail spine), Telson: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  7. telson: Wiktionary
  8. telson: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. telson: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. telson: Dictionary.com
  11. Telson: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Telson: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. telson: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Telson: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. telson: FreeDictionary.org
  16. telson: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. telson: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. telson: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. telson: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  2. telson: Natural History Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (telson)

▸ noun:  (zoology) The part of an arthropod or crustacean posterior to the last segment, often resembling an armored tail or tip of the tail.

Similar:
tail, telsid, tentaculum, tongue, postabdomen, tailfin, tentacle, epipod, topping, precoxa, more...

Types:
pygidium, more...

Adjectives:
long, terminal, short, like, broad, pointed, triangular, forked, elongate, small, narrow

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Similar:
tail, telsid, tentaculum, tongue, postabdomen, tailfin, tentacle, epipod, topping, precoxa, more...

Types:
pygidium, more...

Adjectives:
long, terminal, short, like, broad, pointed, triangular, forked, elongate, small, narrow



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