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单词 protastacus
释义

protastacusn.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: proto- comb. form, Greek ἀστακός.
Etymology: < proto- comb. form + ancient Greek ἀστακός lobster, crayfish (see astacian n.).
Palaeontology. Obsolete. rare.
A hypothetical evolutionary ancestor of the crayfishes.Later adopted as the genus name of a fossil form (Albrecht, 1983).
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1878 T. H. Huxley in Proc. Zool. Soc. 787 A Crustacean..which we may call provisionally Protastacus.

Derivatives

protastacine adj. Obsolete
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1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish vi. 344 The common protastacine form is to be sought in the Trias.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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