单词 | vaginipennous |
释义 | > as lemmasvaginipennous vaginipennous adj. Brit. , U.S. [compare post-classical Latin vaginipennia , plural (1513 or earlier), after ancient Greek κολεόπτερος (see Coleoptera n.)] rare (now historical) designating an insect that has wings covered with a hard sheath (i.e. a beetle); coleopterous.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > belonging to order Coleoptera sheath-winged1646 vaginipennous1646 coleopterous1791 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 141 All vaginipennous or sheathwinged insects, as Beetles and Dorrs. 2007 J. St. John in D. G. Mikulic et al. Fabulous Fossils 205/1 He [sc. Magnus von Bromell] more identified..his Agnostus specimens as small vaginipennous (i.e., beetle-like) and crustaceous, worm-like insects. < as lemmas |
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