单词 | adoral |
释义 | adoraladj. Zoology. Designating, situated on, or relating to the side, end, or surface of an animal's body that is adjacent to the mouth, especially in forms (as some echinoderms) which do not have clear upper and lower sides or anterior and posterior ends. Cf. aboral adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] mouthly1537 oral1631 osculara1785 circumoral1849 perioral1855 adoral1862 pre-oral1870 orolingual1891 orifacial1892 orofacial1960 1862 G. R. Gray in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 246 The adoral wreath of cilia especially stretches forward, whilst the old adoral and frontal cilia become absorbed. 1882 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 16 194 The first or most adoral transverse ambulacral combs of two neighbouring rays touch one another at their bases. 1943 E. O. Ulrich et al. Ozarkian & Canad. Cephalopods II. (Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Papers, No. 49) 17 Each neck extends apicad far enough to invaginate into the adoral end of the adjacent neck. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) ix. 278/1 The Edrioasteroidea..are a small extinct group of echinoderms with five distinct ambulacral and five interambulacral areas, confined to the upper (adoral) surface. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1862 |
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