Definitions for sternite

sternite ster·nite

Spelling: [stur-nahyt]
IPA: /ˈstɜr naɪt/

Sternite is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 258 anagrams from letters in sternite (eeinrstt).

Definitions for sternite

noun

  1. a sclerite of the sternum of an insect, especially a ventral sclerite of an abdominal segment.

Origin of sternite

First recorded in 1865-70; stern- + -ite1

Examples for sternite

They do not long persist in the embryo, but disappear, and the area each one occupied becomes part of the sternite.

A pair of dorso-ventral muscles passing from tergite to sternite in each segment.

These elements are a central piece or sternite, and a lateral field on each side bearing the leg-rudiment.

Urite, ū′rīt, n. the sternite of an abdominal segment of an insect.

Word Value for sternite
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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