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单词 tetrapterous
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tetrapterousadj.

/tɪˈtraptərəs/
Etymology: < modern Latin tetrapterus ( < Greek τετράπτερος four-winged, < τετρα- four- + πτερόν wing) + -ous suffix. Compare French tétraptère.
Having four wings; spec. in Entomology applied to four-winged flies; in Botany having four wing-like appendages, as certain fruits.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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