Usually means: Upper back part of arthropods.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. tergum: Merriam-Webster
  2. tergum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tergum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tergum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tergum: Wiktionary
  6. tergum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. tergum: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. tergum: Dictionary.com
  9. Tergum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Tergum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. tergum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Tergum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. tergum: FreeDictionary.org
  14. tergum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. tergum: Wordnik

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  1. tergum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tergum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See terga as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tergum)

noun:  (entomology) The upper or dorsal surface of an articulated animal such as an arthropod.

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