{ ‖Hem‐el″y‐tron (? or?), ‖Hem‐el″y‐trum (–trŭm cf. Elytron, 277), }, n.; pl.Hemelytra (�). [NL. See Hemi, and Elytron.] (Zoöl.) One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.