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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROSTOMIUM

Via New Latin from Greek prostomion mouth.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PROSTOMIUM

prostomium  [prəʊˈstəʊmɪəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROSTOMIUM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prostomium is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROSTOMIUM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prostomium

The prostomium is the first body segment in an annelid worm's body in the anterior end. It is in front of the mouth, being usually a small shelf- or lip-like extension over the dorsal side of the mouth.

Definition of prostomium in the English dictionary

The definition of prostomium in the dictionary is the lobe at the head end of earthworms and other annelids: bears tentacles, palps, etc, or forms part of a sucker or proboscis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROSTOMIUM


cadmium
ˈkædmɪəm
chromium
ˈkrəʊmɪəm
didymium
daɪˈdɪmɪəm
encomium
ɛnˈkəʊmɪəm
epithalamium
ˌɛpɪθəˈleɪmɪəm
fermium
ˈfɜːmɪəm
ferrochromium
ˌfɛrəʊˈkrəʊmɪəm
gelsemium
dʒɛlˈsiːmɪəm
holmium
ˈhɒlmɪəm
iridosmium
ˌɪrɪdˈɒzmɪəm
neodymium
ˌniːəʊˈdɪmɪəm
osmium
ˈɒzmɪəm
phormium
ˈfɔːmɪəm
praseodymium
ˌpreɪzɪəʊˈdɪmɪəm
premium
ˈpriːmɪəm
prooemium
prəʊˈiːmɪəm
stomium
ˈstəʊmɪəm
superpremium
ˌsuːpərˈpriːmɪəm
tomium
ˈtəʊmɪəm
Verulamium
ˌvɛrʊˈleɪmɪəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROSTOMIUM

prosternum
prostheses
prosthesis
prosthetic
prosthetic group
prosthetically
prosthetics
prosthetist
prosthodontia
prosthodontics
prosthodontist
prostie
prostitute
prostitution
prostitutor
prostomia
prostomial
prostrate
prostration
prostyle

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROSTOMIUM

aluminium
aquarium
at a premium
auditorium
Belgium
calcium
consortium
coremium
equilibrium
insurance premium
lithium
medium
millennium
prothalamium
share premium
sodium
stadium
symposium
titanium
zoospermium

Synonyms and antonyms of prostomium in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prostomium» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROSTOMIUM

Find out the translation of prostomium to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prostomium from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prostomium» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

prostomium
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prostomium
570 millions of speakers

English

prostomium
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prostomium
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

prostomium
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Головная лопасть
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prostômio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prostomium
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prostomium
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prostomium
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prostomium
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prostomium
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prostomium
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prostomium
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prostomium
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prostomium
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रोटोमायम
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prostomium
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prostomium
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prostomium
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

головний лопать
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prostomium
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προστομίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prostomium
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prostomium
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prostomium
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prostomium

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSTOMIUM»

The term «prostomium» is used very little and occupies the 158.967 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROSTOMIUM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prostomium» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prostomium» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prostomium

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROSTOMIUM»

Discover the use of prostomium in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prostomium and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Polychaetes & Allies: The Southern Synthesis
The head is composed of the prostomium, peristomium and, in some instances, fused anterior segments known as cephalised segments. The prostomium contains at least part of the brain, and often carries eyes, antennae and palps ( Fig. 1.10) ...
Pamela L. Beesley, Graham J. B. Ross, Christopher J. Glasby, 2000
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Polychaetes: British Amphinomida, Spintherida and +& ...
The elongated, often cylindrical body can be subdivided into a number of zones, the prostomium. peristomium, trunk and pygidium. Each zone is formed from a different part of the polychaete larva (Fig. 1). The prostomium is a pre-oral lobe ...
John David George, Gesa Hartmann-Schröder, Linnean Society of London, 1985
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Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast
First segment dorsally and ventrally reduced, 2d segment dorsally reduced; prostomium with median antenna .... Clavadoce 4. Tentacular cirri cirriform (fig. 41, a) Eulalia 4. Ventral cirrus of segment 2 foliaceous, asymmetrical; other tentacular ...
Sol Felty Light, Ralph Ingram Smith, 1954
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Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: ...
Worms without reproductive organs or reproductive organs associated with other organs or structural systems; prostomium with cilia, tentacles, scales, or papillae; with setae; aquatic 2 Worms with distinct reproductive organs and a body wall ...
Douglas Grant Smith, 2001
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Biology and Ecology of Earthworms
dorsal surface the prostomium, a lobe overhanging the mouth (Plate 1). The prostomium varies in size, and in some worms it may be so small that it cannot be distinguished. The way in which the peristomium and prostomium are joined differs ...
Clive A. Edwards, P.J. Bohlen, 1996
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The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from ...
Parapodia well developed, usually bearing compound setae; setal lobes supported by internal acicula; prostomium usually with sensory appendages ( except in Lumbrineridae and Oenonidae); pharynx well developed, muscular, often armed ...
Sol Felty Light, James T. Carlton, 2007
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Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast
94 Annelida First segment dorsally and ventrally reduced, 2d segment dorsally reduced; prostomium with median antenna . . . . Clavadoce Tentacular cirri cirriform (fig. 41, a) . . . . . . Eulalia Ventral cirrus of segment 2 foliaceous, asymmetrical; ...
Laboratory and Field Text Invertebrate Zoology, 1954
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Polychaete Conference
Diameter of body, 0.5 mm to nearly 1 mm. Broad Sound, Casco Bay, fifteen to twenty fathoms.” This original account appears to describe a female with capillaries on setigers 1–7 and an elongate, conical prostomium. The figure depicts a worm ...
N. J. Maciolek, N.j. Maciolek & J.a. Blake (eds), James A. Blake, 2009
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Aquatic Oligochaetes
the prostomium. This is the case in polychaetes tBullock & Horridge. l965). In clitellate species, on the other hand, the brain lies behind the prostomium: in the Lumbriculidae it is within the peristomium tIsossimov. l926; Stephenson, l930). in the ...
Brenda M. Healy, Trefor B. Reynoldson, K. A. Coates, 1999
10
Species of Asellotes (Isopoda:Paraselloidea) from Anvers ...
137] and A. neosuecica Hartman and Fauchald [1971, Plate 13d] in that the antenna is inserted at midlength of the prostomium in the first and at the posterior end in the others. Branchiae are large and erect from the first pair in A. simplex, ...
George A. Schultz, 1976

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROSTOMIUM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prostomium is used in the context of the following news items.
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Horizontal endosymbiont transmission in hydrothermal vent …
Right centre: juvenile with prostomium, peristomium (transformed to ventral process (vp) with mouth opening) and anterior part of first segment merged to the ... «Nature.com, May 06»

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