单词 | antefurca |
释义 | ‖ antefurca Ent.|æntɪˈfɜːkə| [mod.L., f. L. ante in front + furca fork.] In cockroaches, an internal forked projection from the sternal wall of the anterior somite of the thorax, which helps to support the nervous cord; sometimes also applied to external forked projections on the ventral surface of the segments of some Arthropoda.
1826Kirby & Spence Entomol. (1828) IV. xliii. 185 The extensor of the anterior thigh to the antefurca. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. An. vii. 404 Forked or double apodemes, the antefurca, medifurca, and postfurca. |

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