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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
tergum /ˈtəːgəm/

▶noun (pl. terga) Zoology a thickened dorsal plate on a body segment of an arthropod.

– origin C19: from L., lit. ‘back’.

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