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A shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head
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clypeus
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WordNet
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n. a shield-like plate on the front of an insect's head [also: clypei (pl)]
Wikipedia
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The clypeus is one of the sclerites that make up the "face" of an arthropod . In insects , the clypeus delimits the lower margin of the face, with the labrum articulated along the ventral margin of the clypeus. The mandibles bracket the labrum, but do not ...
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n. The shield-shaped front part of an insect's head or a spider's cephalothorax.
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clypeus \Clyp"e*us\, n.; pl. Clypei . [L., a shield.] (Zo["o]l.) The frontal plate of the head of an insect.