▪ I. exite Zool.
(ˈɛksaɪt)
[f. Gr. ἔξω outside + -ite1 3.]
In Crustacea, a process on the outer side of the phyllopodium.
| 1881 [see endite n.]. 1893 A. E. Shipley Zool. Invert. 260 The abdominal appendages [of Astacus]..present an unjointed axis which bears on its inner edge six processes termed endites, which bear numerous setae. The axis ends in a sub-apical lobe, and carries on its outer sides two exites. 1967 G. A. Kerkut Borradaile & Potts's Invertebrata (ed. 4) xi. 351 There is in this limb [sc. the phyllopodium] an axial portion or corm which bears..on the outer side one or more lobes known as exites. |
▪ II. exite
obs. form of excite.