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单词 spiritrompe
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spiritrompen.

Forms: 1800s spiritrompe, 1800s spiritrump.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French spiritrompe.
Etymology: < French spiritrompe ( P. A. Latreille Familles naturelles du règne animal (1825) 253) < spir- (in spirale spiral n.) + -i- -i- connective + trompe trump n.1Compare scientific Latin spirirostrum in equivalent use (1825 in Latreille). In form spiritrump with remodelling of the second element after trump n.1
Entomology. Obsolete.
The spiral tubular proboscis or tongue of butterflies and moths; = antlia n. 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > proboscis
nib1585
beak1658
promuscis1658
proboscisa1660
trunk1661
probe1664
trump1752
antlia1826
siphuncle1826
spiritrompe1831
1831 H. McMurtrie tr. P. A. Latreille in G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom III. 5 In others that also live by suction, the Lepidoptera, the maxillæ alone are greatly elongated and united, producing a tubular setiform body, resembling a long, slender, and spiral tongue (or the spiritrompe, Lat.).
1845 Lit. Rec. & Jrnl. Linn. Assoc. Pennsylvania Coll. Dec. 27 The spiritrompe is composed of two threads more or less long, horny, concave upon their internal surfaces.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 156 As the only food consists of the liquid nectar of flowers the organs of the mouth are reduced and modified, the only conspicuous parts being the spiritrompe or antliae, the homologues of the galeae in biting mouths.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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