"tailshield" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "tail + shield",
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          "ref": "1985, E. W. Nield, Ted Nield, V. C. T. Tucker, Palaeontology, an Introduction",
          "text": "Trilobites have a distinct headshield or cephalon and a distinct tailshield or pygidium, and in both these regions the original segmentation has been suppressed — more completely in the cephalon than in the pygidium — and [...]",
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        "The pygidium."
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  "word": "tailshield"
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  "etymology_text": "tail + shield",
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