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‖ patagium Zool.|pætəˈdʒaɪəm|
Pl. -ia.
[med.L., from ancient L. patagīum a gold edging or border on a Roman lady's tunic = Gr. παταγεῖον.]
a. A fold of skin or membrane extending along the side of the body of certain flying mammals and reptiles, capable of expansion so as to act as a parachute; the wing-membrane of a bat or similar animal.
b. Ornith. The fold or integument occupying the angle between the upper arm and the forearm of birds.
c. Entom. The name for each of a pair of processes or appendages on the pronotum and thorax of certain Lepidoptera.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 368 Patagia... Two corneous scales observable in Lepidoptera, fixed on each side of the trunk, just behind the head, and covered with a long tuft of hair. Ibid. IV. 381 The patagia or tippets that adorn their evanescent thorax. 1872Nicholson Palæont. 374 An expanded flying membrane or ‘patagium’. 1899Cambridge Nat. Hist. VI. 311 The patagia.. are of some interest in connection with the question of wing-like appendages on the prothorax of Palaeozoic insects, and they have been considered by some writers to be the equivalents of true wings. Ibid. 312 These appendages are frequently erroneously called patagia, but have also been called scapulae, pterygodes, paraptera, and shoulder-tufts, or shoulder-lappets.
Hence patagial |pəˈteɪdʒɪəl| a., of, pertaining to, or connected with a patagium; paˈtagiate a., formed into or furnished with a patagium.
1887Science 5 Aug. 71/1 Dorsal View of the Patagial Muscles of a Woodpecker. 1894Newton Dict. Birds 607 Garrod devoted much labour to the elucidation of these patagial muscles. 1890Cent. Dict., Patagiate. |