Crossword-Solution: PROLEG 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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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.

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Larva limb 1 answer
Larvae limb 1 answer
appendage on abdominal segment of a caterpillar 1 answer
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Proleg: any process or appendage that serves the purpose of a leg: specifically the fleshy unjointed abdominal legs of caterpillars and certain saw-fly larvae: = abdominal feet: false legs.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith 2007
Turner's elegant translation[235] of it begins thus: "O my lov'd cell, sweet dwelling of my soul, Must I for ever say, dear spot, farewell?" [Footnote 232: _Theatrum Chemicum_, proleg.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness Thomas Frognall Dibdin 2009
The larvae of _Elateridae_ are elongate, worm-like grubs, with narrow bodies, very firm cuticle, short legs, and a distinct anal proleg.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 Various 2010
Mill accounts for this circumstance by supposing that in the first copies the titles at the head of each Gospel were reserved till last for more splendid illumination, and were thus eventually forgotten (Proleg.
A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener 2011
Mill indeed reminds us that the early Church at Rome was composed to so great an extent of Jewish and other foreigners, whose vernacular tongue was Greek, that the need of a Latin translation of Scripture would not at first be felt; yet even he would not place its date later than Pius I (142-157), the first Bishop of Rome after Clement who bears a Latin name (Mill, Proleg.
A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener 2011
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