单词 | amphistylic |
释义 | amphistylicadj. Having pillars or piers on both sides: applied to the skulls of certain sharks, having piers supporting both upper and lower mandibular arches. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [adjective] > of parts of amphistylic1876 1876 Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 41 A condition of the cranium which tends to connect the two by a middle form, which may be termed amphistylic. 1881 F. M. Balfour Treat. Compar. Embryol. II. 476 Skulls in which the mandibular arch has this double form of support have been called amphistylic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < adj.1876 |
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