单词 | mystacocete |
释义 | mystacoceten. Zoology. Now rare. A whale of the suborder Mysticeti (formerly also called Mystacoceti) of baleen or whalebone whales. Cf. mysticete n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > suborder Mystacoceti > [noun] > member of whale-mouse1607 skull-fish1668 whale's guide1668 bonefish1734 mysticete1797 baleen whale1874 mystacocete1883 1870 W. H. Flower Osteol. Mammalia iv. 37 Among the Mystacoceti, in the Right Whales (genus Balæna) the whole of the seven cervical vertebræ are usually united into one mass.] 1883 W. H. Flower in Encycl. Brit. XV. 393/1 The Mystacocetes appear at first sight to be the most specialized and aberrant of the existing Cetacea. 1893 Amer. Naturalist 27 495 His general conclusions are, that all the earliest mammals were diphyodont. This is based upon his discovery of successional teeth in Marsupials, Edentates, Odontocetes and Mystacocetes. 1923 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 211 212 The earliest account of the skull in fœtal Mystacocetes is that given by Eschricht. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。