Usually means: Sensory appendage at insect's rear.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cercus: Merriam-Webster
  2. cercus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cercus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cercus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cercus: Wordnik
  6. cercus: Wiktionary
  7. cercus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. cercus: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cercus: Dictionary.com
  10. Cercus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cercus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cercus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Cercus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cercus: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cercus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. cercus: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cercus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cercus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cercus: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cercus: HYPP Zoology

(Note: See cerci as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cercus)

noun:  (entomology) A structure on the end of the abdomen of most insects, sometimes long, hairlike sensory organs and sometimes smaller and rigid.

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