单词 | gular |
释义 | gularadj.n. 1. Of, pertaining to, or situated upon the gula. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of head > relating to or forming trophi > of or relating to the gula gular1828 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 349 A gular pouch in the greater number. 18.. Ridgway in Coues Birds N.W. (1874) 287 Allowing the red of the gular patch to touch, for quite a distance, the white stripe beneath the eye. 1882 C. C. Hopley Snakes 67 The egg comes in contact with certain ‘gular teeth’, which then break the shell without any loss of the contents to the feeder. 1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata 249 A large number of species have a bright or nearly bright gular spot. 2. Concerned with the appetite; devoted to good eating.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1854 Fraser's Mag. 49 104 The second..was..the founder of a gular academy, distinguishing himself by his treatise de opsoniis et condimentis. 3. elliptical as n. A gular plate beneath the throat of a serpent or a fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > plate beneath throat throat plate1836 gular1885 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > parts of combc1400 gular1885 subcaudal1964 1885 J. S. Kingsley Standard Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 350 Posterior to the mental, and lying between the infralabials, are the submentals and gulars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.n.1828 |
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