单词 | arthropodal |
释义 | arthropodaladj. Originally Zoology. Of, relating to, or characteristic of arthropods; of the nature of or resembling an arthropod. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [adjective] arthropodous1855 arthropod1861 arthropodal1870 arthropodan1879 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 107 The Crustacea, the earliest representatives of the Arthropodal type. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals xii. 679 Its nervous system is..Arthropodal. 1932 L. van Es Princ. Animal Hygiene & Preventative Vet. Med. xlvi. 636 The virus does not persist in extracorporeal situations,..nor is it harbored by arthropodal carriers. 1954 T. Sturgeon in Thrilling Wonder Stories Summer 39/1 He found him lying in what had once been his laboratory,..absently staring down at one of the arthropodal flying creatures that had once startled them so. 1970 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 119 562/2 There is some evidence that there is a higher degree of orientation of fungal chitin than in crustacean or arthropodal chitin. 2003 C. Sleigh Ant iv. 100 Arthropodal aliens stalk the earth in War of the Worlds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1870 |
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