noun
definition
A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects.
Examples of elytron in a Sentence
Sometimes the glands are found beneath the disk of the elytron, opening by pores on the surface.
Naturally, it is among the free living forms that the parapodium is best developed, and least developed among the tubicolous belongs typically a long tentacle, the cirrus, which 'r podium or neuropodium, and may be developed into an arborescent gill or into a flat scale-like process, A the elytron (in Polynoe, &c.).
The upper surface of the elytron is sharply folded inwards at intervals, so as to give rise to a regular series of external longitudinal furrows (striae) and to form a set of supports between the two chitinous layers forming the elytron.
Along the sutural border of the elytron, the chitinous lamella forms a tubular space within which are numerous glands.