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单词 hippocrepian
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hippocrepianadj.n.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with English elements. Etymons: hippo- comb. form, Greek κρηπίς , -ian suffix.
Etymology: < hippo- comb. form + ancient Greek κρηπίς boot, shoe (see crepis n.) + -ian suffix. N.E.D. (1898) gives the pronunciation as (hipokrī·piăn) /hɪpəʊˈkriːpɪən/.
Zoology. Obsolete.
A. adj.
Designating certain bryozoan invertebrates having a lophophore shaped like a horseshoe; of or relating to such invertebrates. Also Botany: hippocrepiform.
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hippocrepian1849
1849 Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 22 278 The hippocrepian Polyzoa..have their tentacula arranged on a crescentic ‘lophophore’.
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals viii. 461 The lophophore resembles that of the hippocrepian Phylactolaemata in being produced into two arms fringed with a double series of tentacula.
1888 J. W. Dawson Geol. Hist. Plants iii. 94 Traces of the hippocrepian mark characteristic of Protopteris.
1917 Jrnl. Cell Sci. 62 130 The lophophore is now clearly seen to be hippocrepian in form.
B. n.
A bryozoan invertebrate of this type.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [noun] > lophopoda > member of
hippocrepian1869
1869 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 9 60 As in other hippocrepians, no gizzard is here developed in the alimentary tract.
1902 J. K. Jerome Paul Kelver iv. 65 The most beautiful damsel that ever lived she would without a moment's hesitation turn into a Glyptodon or a Hippocrepian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018).
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