Usually means: Stabilizing, gyroscopic organs in flies.
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  1. halteres: Merriam-Webster
  2. halteres: Collins English Dictionary
  3. halteres: Vocabulary.com
  4. halteres: Wordnik
  5. halteres: Wiktionary
  6. Halteres, halteres: Dictionary.com
  7. Halteres (ancient Greece): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Halteres: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. halteres: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Halteres: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. halteres: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Halteres: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. Halteres: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. halteres: Global Glossary

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(Note: See halter as well.)

Definitions from Wikipedia (Halteres)

noun:  (singular halter or haltere) (from , hand-held weights to give an impetus in leaping) a pair of small club-shaped organs on the body of two orders of flying insects that provide information about body rotations during flight.


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