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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tergum  \Ter"gum\,  n.;  pl  {Terga}.  [L.,  the  back.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  a  The  back  of  an  animal. 
  b  The  dorsal  piece  of  a  somite  of  an  articulate  animal. 
  c  One  of  the  dorsal  plates  of  the  operculum  of  a  cirriped. 

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