[hal.tere] n, pl hal.teres [NL halter, fr. L, jumping weight, fr. Gk halter, fr. hallesthai to leap--more at sally] (1823): one of a pair of club-shaped organs in a dipteran insect that are the modified second pair of wings and function as sensory flight stabilizers
HALTERE
Meaning of HALTERE in English
Merriam-Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Merriam Webster. 2012