单词 | coarctate metamorphosis |
释义 | > as lemmascoarctate metamorphosis b. Entomology. Applied to a pupa enclosed in a smooth horny case, which gives no indication of the limbs or form of the insect; the transformation is called coarctate metamorphosis. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [adjective] > of young > of (nature of) or relating to pupa or chrysalis > coarctate coarctate1815 obtected1816 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. iii. 70 There is still a fifth kind of pupæ, which are not..excluded from the skin of the larva, but remain concealed under it, and were hence called by Linné coarctate pupæ. 1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxvi. 512 Said to undergo a ‘coarctate’ metamorphosis. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 76 The ‘coarctate’ pupa of many Diptera. < as lemmas |
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