Usually means: Scent scales on male butterflies.
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  1. androconium: Merriam-Webster
  2. androconium: Wiktionary
  3. androconium: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. androconium: Dictionary.com
  5. androconium: Merriam-Webster

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▸ noun:  A specialised, glandular scale, on the forewings of some butterflies, that emits pheromones

Similar:
electroantennography, antennogram, hair pencil, connexivum, antepronotum, scale, alate, metaparapteron, thyridium, androchrome, more...

Opposite:
gynoecium, pistil

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Similar:
electroantennography, antennogram, hair pencil, connexivum, antepronotum, scale, alate, metaparapteron, thyridium, androchrome, more...

Opposite:
gynoecium, pistil



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