Usually means: Counterbalance, stabilizes flight in flies.
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  1. haltere: Merriam-Webster
  2. haltere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. haltere: Collins English Dictionary
  4. haltere: Vocabulary.com
  5. haltere: Wiktionary
  6. haltere: Dictionary.com
  7. Haltere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. haltere: Rhymezone
  9. haltere: FreeDictionary.org
  10. haltere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. haltere: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. haltere: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. haltere: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (haltere)

noun:  (entomology) A small knobbed structure in some two-winged insects, one of a pair that are flapped rapidly and function as accelerometers to maintain stability in flight.

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