Definition of "halteres" [‖Hal•te•res]

• Plural form of haltere. (noun)

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• "Historians of the ancient Olympics have always questioned how hand-held weights called halteres depicted on many Greek vases and found at sporting sites all over Greece were used."
• "All this is possible because of two small, vibrating sense organs called halteres, which millions of years ago evolved from what used to be a pair of hind wings."
• "(ultrabithorax) that enables it to develop "halteres," or balancers."