file

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file (noun; Anglo-Saxon fil, feo, file): (Arthropoda: Insecta) A filelike, rough ridge on the ventral side of the tegmen, near the base, that functions as a part of the stridulating mechanism in crickets and long-horned grasshoppers.
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