mesonotum
noun
mesonotum is a noun meaning “The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-E-S-O-N-O-T-U-M, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of mesonotum is mesonota.
What does mesonotum mean?
noun
- 1
The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of mesonotum
- mesonota plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is mesonotum?
Mesonotum appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does mesonotum come from?
From New Latin, from Ancient Greek, meaning "middle of the back".
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).