单词 | pulmonate |
释义 | pulmonaten.adj. Zoology. A. n. 1. Any of various gastropod molluscs comprising the subclass or order Pulmonata, characterized by adaptation of the mantle cavity for breathing air, and including all terrestrial and many freshwater species of gastropod. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > member of snailc725 dodmana1563 pulmonian1839 pulmonate1842 lung snail1909 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 997/2 Pulmonates, Pulmonata, the name of an order of Gastropodous Mollusks, including those which breathe air. 1867 Amer. Naturalist 1 502 There are..in the coal formation of Nova Scotia a Pupa and a Conulus or Zonites, generically allied to living pulmonates. 1882 G. W. Tryon Conchology I. 253 The shells of terrestrial pulmonates are inoperculate. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ii. 31 Every adaptation we shall later find in the opisthobranchs and pulmonates, the mesogastropods seem somewhere to have attempted for themselves. 1961 J. Stubblefield Davies's Introd. Palaeontol. (ed. 3) iii. 88 The oldest known freshwater Pulmonates appear to be Physa and Planorbis of the Purbeck Beds. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) viii. 219/1 The pulmonates are the only molluscs that have made a really successful transition to land. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > member of > having particular means of respiration > pulmonary pulmonary1835 pulmonate1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Pulmonate, a member of the Pulmonata in either sense, as a snail or a spider. B. adj. 1. Designating or relating to gastropod molluscs of the subclass or order Pulmonata, characterized by adaptation of the mantle cavity for breathing air. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > internal organs and systems > [adjective] > having lungs or gills gilled1771 pulmonary1833 pulmonated1834 branchiated1835 branchiferous1851 pulmonate1853 notobranchious1857 branchiate1870 notobranchiate1870 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > pulmonary pulmonary1833 pulmonate1853 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > belonging to order Pulmonifera pulmonary1833 pulmoniferous1834 pulmobranchiate1841 pulmonate1853 1853 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 143 47 Leuckart considers that the oral lobes of the pulmonate embryo are the homologues of the ciliated vela. 1863 J. D. Dana Man. Geol. iii. 363 As late as the Carboniferous period there were only reptiles, insects, and pulmonate mollusks. 1914 Brit. Mus.: Return 152 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 186) LXXI. 193 On Aporemodon, a remarkable new Pulmonate genus. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ii. 42 A long anterior canal is never developed in pulmonate shells. 1995 P. J. Hayward et al. in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe x. 572/1 The pulmonate gastropods are primarily adapted to terrestrial and freshwater habitats. 2. In wider use: having or involving lungs, or respiratory organs similar to lungs; esp. (of certain arachnids) breathing air by means of book lungs. Now rare. ΚΠ 1881 E. R. Lankester in Proc. Royal Soc. 32 391 I am anxious to place on record the chief grounds which appear to me to exist for classifying Limulus with Arachnida in very close association with the pulmonate members of that class. 1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 223 The pulmonate type of respiration—intermediate between the gills of the Gigantostraca and the tracheæ of the higher Arachnids. 1901 Amer. Naturalist 35 895 The siredon is..morphologically a pulmonate or ‘air-breathing’ animal. 1987 Nature 16 Apr. 645/3 These pulmonate scorpions first appeared in the late Carboniferous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1842 |
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