单词 | lappet |
释义 | lappet/ˈlapɪt /noun 1A fold or hanging piece of flesh in some animals.The shape of its edge indicates that the maxilla lacked the posterodorsally reflected lappet present in most other mosasaurs....
1.1A loose or overlapping part of a garment.In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets, when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta, there lived a tailor in Gloucester....
2 (also lappet moth) A brownish moth, the hairy caterpillars of which have fleshy lappets along each side of the body.
DerivativeslappetedOriginLate Middle English (denoting a lobe of the ear, liver, etc.): diminutive of lap1. |
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