单词 | parastacine |
释义 | parastacineadj. Zoology. rare. Belonging or relating to the genus Parastacus or family Parastacidae of freshwater crayfish of the southern hemisphere. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [adjective] > belonging to family Parastacidae parastacine1878 1878 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 787 The northern form [of crustacean]..tended towards the assumption of the Potamobiine, and the southern towards that of the Parastacine type. 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish vi. 335 The time at which the Potamobine and the Parastacine stocks respectively began to take possession of the rivers. 1914 G. W. Smith in A. J. Herbertson & O. J. R. Howarth Oxf. Surv. Brit. Empire: Australasia iv. 153 Two species of parastacine crayfish are found in these streams. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1878 |
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