postabdomen
(pəʊstæbˈdəʊmən)
[post- A. 2.]
The posterior part of the abdomen; esp. in insects, crustacea, or other invertebrates, the portion posterior to the abdominal cavity. Hence postabˈdominal a., of or pertaining to the postabdomen.
| 1842 Brande Dict. Sci., etc., Post-abdomen, the name applied by Latreille to the five posterior segments of the abdomen of Hexapod insects; and to the tail of Crustaceans, which consists of analogous but more numerous segments. 1870 Rolleston Anim. Life 108 The post-abdominal region. 1871 T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 526 In all the Polyclinian group it [the ovarium] is lodged in the post⁓abdomen. |