ephip·pi·um
| \ -pēəm \
plural ephippia\
-pēə
\
Definition of ephippium
1
: sella turcica
2
: a saddlelike chitinous thickening over the brood pouch of various cladocerans that when shed forms a bivalve capsule containing the winter eggs
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