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单词 aeolid
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aeolidn.adj.

Brit. /ˈiːəlɪd/, /ˈeɪəlɪd/, U.S. /ˈiəlᵻd/, /ˈeɪəlᵻd/
Forms: 1800s– aeolid, 1800s– eolid.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French Éolides.
Etymology: < French Éolides (plural; Cuvier Tableau élémentaire de l'hist. nat. des animaux (1798) VI. iii. 388) < classical Latin Aeolidēs son or remoter descendant of Aeolus < Aeolus (see Aeolian adj.) + -idēs -id suffix3.Cuvier originally (1798) gave the genus name Aeolidia to these molluscs, French Éolides, though he later (1805) used the Latin form Eolis.
Zoology.
A. n.
A marine nudibranch mollusc of the suborder Aeolidacea, characterized by club-shaped cerata on the dorsal side of the body.
ΚΠ
1854 A. Adams et al. Man. Nat. Hist. i. 124 Nor will the pelagian Dorids and Eolids that occupy the stems of floating sea-weeds escape his observation.
1894 Athenæum 1 Dec. 757/1 The anterior part of the foot [of Colpodaspis pusilla]..possessed a pair of large prolongations of its antero-lateral angles, analogous to the anterior pedal cornia of many æolids.
1939 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 59 268 Previous physiological work on the digestive system of aeolids has been almost entirely devoted to deciding whether the nematocysts found in the cerata are exogenous or endogenous.
1990 Jrnl. Molluscan Stud. 56 393/2 The madrellids..have a strong resemblance to the aeolidacean nudibranchs, but their cerata lack cnidosacs, a fact that instantly separates them from the aeolids.
B. adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the suborder Aeolidacea.
ΚΠ
1904 Proc. Royal Soc. 72 478 I had occasion to examine a large number of Æolid cerata for the identification and comparison of the nematocysts.
1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. xviii. 359 In æolid veligers the cilia of the velum are under nervous control.
1959 A. Hardy Fish & Fisheries vi. 129 The coloured papillae of the Eolid sea-slugs.
1985 J. E. Chatfield in K. Banister & A. C. Campbell Encycl. Underwater Life 263/3 (caption) Aeolid sea slug (Hermissenda species) in a Californian tidepool.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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