Usually means: Glands producing hormones in insects.
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  1. corpora allata: Merriam-Webster
  2. corpora allata: Wiktionary
  3. Corpora allata: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See corpus_allatum as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (corpus allatum)

noun:  A structure, near the brain of young arthropods, that secretes the hormone neotenin.
▸ Also see corpus_allatum


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