单词 | pre-abdomen |
释义 | > as lemmaspre-abdomen pre-abdomen n. Brit. /(ˌ)priːˈabdəmən/ , /ˌpriːabˈdəʊmən/ , U.S. /ˌpriˈæbdəmən/ Zoology the anterior part of the abdomen, esp. in insects, crustaceans, etc.ΚΠ 1885 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1 182 The dorsal crust is preserved over..more than half of the preabdomen. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) v. 146 The Eurypterida had the body divided into three regions; the prosoma or cephalothorax, the mesosoma or pre-abdomen of 7 segments and the metasoma or post-abdomen of 5 segments and a telson. 1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxiii. 115 The opisthosoma is generally of 12 fused segments (a pre-abdomen of seven and a post-abdomen of five in scorpions). < as lemmas |
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