Looking for sentences and phrases with the word pleuron? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
The axillaries are specifically developed only in the wing-flexing insects, where they constitute the flexor mechanism of the wing operated by the flexor muscle arising on the pleuron.
The shell around each somite can be divided into a dorsal tergum, ventral sternum and a lateral pleuron.
Strabo does not, however, explicitly refer to the sack of the city of Old Pleuron.
Examples from Classical Literature
But the anger of Artemis was not yet soothed, and she roused a strife between the men of pleuron and the men of Kalydon.
For Meleagros sought to have the head, and the Kouretes of pleuron cared not to take the hide only for their portion.
From the median tubercle to the outer edge of the pleuron of the second thoracic segment the distance is 3.7 mm.
On each side the tergum overlaps the sternum, and hangs down as a side-flap, or pleuron.
For Portheus had three noble sons, two of whom, Agrius and Melas, abode in Pleuron and rocky Calydon.
In boxing I overcame Clytomedes son of Enops, and in wrestling, Ancaeus of Pleuron who had come forward against me.
