单词 | phyllobranchia |
释义 | phyllobranchian. Zoology. A type of gill occurring in some decapod crustaceans in which the axis bears two rows of close-set lamellar plates. Cf. trichobranchia n. at tricho- comb. form1 . ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > gill pleurobranchia1878 phyllobranchia1880 1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish v. 271 The prawn's gills are..phyllobranchiæ;..the central stem of the branchia..bears only two rows of broad flat lamellæ. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xvi. 221 In Sergestes, Professor Smith remarks, the branchiæ are compound phyllobranchiæ, while those of Penæus in the preceding family are compound trichobranchiæ. 1963 G. A. Kerkut Borradaile & Potts's Invertebrata (rev. ed.) xi. 412 The gills are of the kind known as phyllobranchiae... The axis of each..has on either side a row of plates, set close like the leaves of a book. Derivatives phylloˈbranchial adj. rare ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Phyllobranchial. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xii. 182 The phyllobranchial plates are present in the centre and deeper recesses of the chamber, where the circulation will be more quiescent, and the power of oxygenation less efficient. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880 |
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。