VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / prolegs

Thesaurus: prolegs

plural of proleg n. One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and fal…

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. plural of proleg n. One of the fleshy legs found on the abdominal segments of the larvae of Lepidoptera, sawflies, and some other insects. Those of Lepidoptera have a circle of hooks. Called also proped, propleg, and falseleg.