Noun: vitta
| Singular | vitta |
| Plural | vittae |
Sample Sentences
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The curved black line behind the scutel is usually expanded, in connection with the metathoracic black vitta, into a broad black triangle, the apex of which does not quite attain the abdominal peduncle. [1870, American Entomologist and Botanist, volume 2, page 301:]
Nouns inflected like vitta
rimoportula,
setula,
semita,
scapha,
sicula,
bistropha,
apertura,
hemidrachma,
zoochlorella,
pseudonavicella,
chartula,
reticula,
fasciola,
pterygomaxillary fossa,
glenoid fossa,
rhamphotheca,
subucula,
synusia,
filopluma,
gonotheca, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vitta. See: Latin Nouns '
vitta'.