Bible Dictionaries
Tergum

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The back of an animal.

(2):

(n.) The dorsal piece of a somite of an articulate animal.

(3):

(n.) One of the dorsal plates of the operculum of a cirriped.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Tergum'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/tergum.html. 1828.