"metaleg" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From meta- + leg.",
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          "ref": "1923, Alexander Dyer MacGillivray, External Insect Anatomy",
          "text": "Likewise, in those insects where the metalegs are fitted for jumping, the prolegs and mesolegs are coordinated with the metalegs and fitted for walking",
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          "ref": "2013, Walter R. Tschinkel, The Fire Ants",
          "text": "The parts make up different but constant proportions of the entire leg for the pro- and mesolegs, but in the metaleg, the femur becomes relatively shorter and the tibia longer as size increases.",
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          "ref": "2019, Jeffrey H. Skevington, Michelle M. Locke, Andrew D. Young, Field Guide to the Flower Flies of Northeastern North America",
          "text": "In X. flavitibia the first three tarsomeres of the metaleg are bright yellow.",
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        "Either of the two hind legs on an insect."
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        "(entomology) Either of the two hind legs on an insect."
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          "text": "In X. flavitibia the first three tarsomeres of the metaleg are bright yellow.",
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        "(entomology) Either of the two hind legs on an insect."
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