Noun: preabdomen
| Singular | preabdomen |
| Plural | preabdomens; preabdomina |
Sample Sentences
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The anthomyiid oviscapt (postabdomen) is as regards the ground plan undoubtedly slender, well set off from and hardly shorter than the preabdomen, and has slender cerci with projecting, cylindrical apices. [2013, Verner Michelsen, “Proposal of Karliella gen. n. for the Afrotropical ‘Pegomya’ sexpunctata Karl, 1935 (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), a possible kleptoparasite of dung-breeding beetles”, in African Invertebrates, volume 54, number 2, →DOI, pages 335–347:]
Nouns inflected like preabdomen
postabdomen,
cognomen,
caudoputamen,
prenomen,
praenomen,
chemoregimen,
legumen,
abdomen,
limen,
lumen,
agnomen,
albumen,
velamen,
clinamen,
molimen,
preabdomen,
representamen,
acumen,
germen,
regimen, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From pre- + abdomen.