gaster


Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to gaster: gastritis

gas·ter

 (găs′tər)
n.
The portion of the abdomen behind the petiole in ants and other hymenopterous insects.

[Greek gastēr, belly.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

gaster

(ˈɡɑːstə)
vb (tr)
obsolete to frighten; scare
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

gas•ter

(ˈgæs tər)

n.
(in ants, bees, and wasps) the rounded part of the abdomen behind the pedicel.
[1905–10; < Greek gastḗr]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
W.D Gaster was some sort of Easter Egg character that&nbsp;players could spend time finding clues about him, and this character somehow exists separately from&nbsp;the "Undertale" story.
Minister Gaster Murray made the disclosure to the media in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County on Monday, 4 March during the launch of the payment of compensations for the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea (TRANSCO-CLSG) Project affected persons here.
"Other" tumour types included undifferentiated neoplasm (for gaster) and neuroendocrine carcinoma, hemangioma, fibroid polyp, and undifferentiated neoplasm (for intestine).
Workers are capable of directionally flinging venom onto opponents in large quantities (up to 500 ng) or dispersing venom into the air as an aerosol by gaster flagging to repel non-nestmates encountered at food resources, and they can dispense small quantities (~1 ng) to the brood surface, presumably as an antibiotic (Obin & Vander Meer 1985).
Based on the key characters including number of antennal segments, head structure and setae, presence of white band across T1 of gaster, wing venations, and tibial segments, the wasp was identified to the species, Promuscidea unfasciativentris Girault (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae: Eriaporinae).
attae se observo atacando a hormigas en el gaster y en el mesosoma (63.63 y 36.36%, respectivamente).
El musculo digastrico aparece mencionado en Terminologia Anatomica con el codigo A04.2.03.006, pertenece al grupo de los musculos suprahioideos y esta formado por dos vientres (latin: gaster) unidos por un tendon intermedio (Moore & Dalley, 2007).
Gaster amarillo oscuro, con bandas difusas parduzcas a los lados desde la base hasta el apice.
Trachymyrmex is an inconspicuous genus of Attini, featuring monomorphic workers with tuberculate gaster. According to BRANDAO et al.
Written on parchment, the First Gaster Bible from the ninth to 10th century is one of the earliest surviving examples of Jewish illuminated manuscripts from the Middle East.