单词 | pterygote |
释义 | pterygoteadj.n. Entomology. A. adj. Of or relating to the insect subclass Pterygota (cf. Pterygota n.). Cf. apterygote adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] pterygote1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Pterygote,..having wings..; specifically, belonging to the Pterygota. 1898 A. S. Packard Text-bk. Entomol. 83 In the embryo of pterygote insects, an intermaxillary segment has not been yet detected. 1965 B. E. Freeman tr. A. Vandel Biospeleol. xii. 173 The other pterygote orders contain no true cavernicoles. 1998 Systematic Biol. 47 713/1 I did not count..the several secondarily flightless orders among the pterygote insects. B. n. An insect of the subclass Pterygota; a winged insect. ΚΠ 1927 Amer. Naturalist 61 247 A definite phylum, the Annularia, consisting of a series of classes... We may enumerate these classes as the Pterygotes, the Thysanurans, [etc.]. 1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) iii. 253 The primary phylogenetic bifurcation..must have occurred very early in the evolution of the Pterygotes. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. x. 288 Pterygotes are the only invertebrates that truly fly although flight evolved at least three times..among vertebrates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1890 |
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