单词 | alitrunk |
释义 | alitrunkn. Entomology. The mesosoma of a hymenopterous insect, esp. an ant, consisting of the thorax and the propodeum fused together. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > thorax truncus1706 corslet1753 alitrunk1826 trunk1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 531 M. Chabrier calls the latter tronc alifère, or wing trunk;—a happy term, which I have adopted and latinized calling it the alitrunk. 1908 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 34 161 Alitrunk short and stout, tapering posteriorly. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xix. 447 The combinations of the last two segments of thorax and propodeum is called the alitrunk. 2009 J. Heinze & S. Foitzik in J. Gadau et al. Organization Insect Societies ii. 39 (caption) Histological section through the alitrunks of a short-winged female sexual (left) and a long-winged female sexual. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1826 |
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