| 单词 | air duct |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair duct air duct n. [originally after French conduit à air (1744 in the passage translated in quot. 1744)] a duct for the passage of air, esp. (Zoology) one connecting the swim bladder of a fish with its mouth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > air bladder or parts of sound1323 swimmer1579 wind-bladder1594 rete1615 swim1638 air bladder1675 swimming-bladder1713 air duct1744 red body1785 swim-bladder1837 fish-maw1840 fish-sound1879 maw1883 red gland1896 1744 tr. G. A. Bazin Nat. Hist. Bees viii. 165 The modern philosophers..have seen those air ducts [Fr. conduits à air], which have a communication through the egg to the exterior air. 1763 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. (ed. 2) II. 1001/1 Air-duct, among ichthyologists, a canal reaching from the air-bladder in fishes to their stomach. 1794 R. Willan Whitehurst's Observ. Ventilation of Rooms ii. 22 It does not..prove effectual without the application of air-ducts. 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man v. 100 In the bony pike..there is an extremely large air-bladder..communicating with the mouth by an air-duct. 1951 Biol. Bull. 101 189 Unless the fish has a patent air duct through which to let the gas out (Physostome), it can only very slowly get rid of the gas. 1994 I. Rankin Beggars Banquet (2002) 32 It was a 1973 Ford Capri with tinted windows, an air duct and a spoiler. < as lemmas |
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