| 单词 | eye case |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseye case eye case n. †(a) a cover or goggle worn to protect the eyes (obsolete rare); (b) Entomology the cuticle that covers the eye of an adult insect or the developing eye of a pupa. ΚΠ 1799 A. F. M. Willich Lect. Diet & Regimen xii. 607 The common eye-cases, used by travellers, and by artificers who work in substances that cause much dust to fly about, are, for the following reasons, improper. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxi. 250 Just below the base of the antennæ-case you may discern the eye-cases (Ophthalmo-theca). 1903 Jrnl. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 11 161 Vertex of head and upper part of clypeus full, rounded, and extending up above the eye cases. 1978 Coleopterists Bull. 32 181 One pair of long, attenuate, interocular setae present; these borne on moderately large tubercles located medially on inner edge of each eye case. < as lemmas |
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