单词 | tetrapterous |
释义 | tetrapterousadj. Having four wings; spec. in Entomology applied to four-winged flies; in Botany having four wing-like appendages, as certain fruits. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of wing(s) > of four-winged insect tetrapterous1826 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [adjective] > indehiscent or like an achene four-wingeda1711 nucamentaceous1829 samaroid1830 indehiscent1832 pseudospermic1835 nucamentous1840 pseudo-spermous1849 tetrapterous1860 achenial1863 cypselous1878 schizocarpous1905 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 66 A Tetrapterous insect, the genus of which is uncertain, is said, when it is taken, to discharge its eggs like shot from a gun. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvii. 376 A substance intermediate between that of the elytra of Coleoptera and that of the wings of the Tetrapterous Orders. 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Tetrapterus..Bot., having four wings, as the fruit of Tetragonia tetraptera. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Tetrapterous, four-winged. Derivatives teˈtrapter n. (see quot. 1846). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > fossil ichthyolite1828 tetrapter1846 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > wings(s) > winged insect > having four wings tetrapteran1842 tetrapter1846 1846 B. H. Smart Walker's Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 2) Tetrapters, insects with four wings; fossil fishes having four fins. teˈtrapteran adj. and n. (a) adj. tetrapterous; (b) n. a four-winged insect. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > wings(s) > winged insect > having four wings tetrapteran1842 tetrapter1846 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1226/1 Tetrapterans, Tetraptera,..applied by some entomologists to the insects which have four wings, and which thus constitute an extensive primary division of the class. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1826 |
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