Tagma

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Notion

Domain

Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In biology, a tagma (Greek: τάγμα, pl.: tagmata – τάγματα - body of soldiers; battalion) is a specialized grouping of multiple segments or metameres into a coherently functional morphological unit. Familiar examples are the head, the thorax, and the abdomen of insects.

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