单词 | alata |
释义 | alatan. Entomology. A winged female aphid. Usually in plural. Cf. alate n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > winged female alata1922 1908 A. T. Gillanders Forest Entomol. viii. 322 The 1st generation (foundress) is a parthogenetic female... The 2nd generation (migrans alata) acquires wings after the fourth moult. 1921 Bull. Entomol. Res. 12 87 There are produced winged viviparous females which..morphologically resemble the other alienicolae alatae. These are the sexupara alatae or remigrantes.] 1922 Proc. Acadian Entomol. Soc. 1921 vii. 10 In the case of..monophagous species..the control of the production of alatae was even more perfect. 1938 Trans. Royal Entomol. Soc. 87 166 During July the alatae become increasingly scarce and finally disappear. 1992 S. Finch & A. R. Thompson in R. G. McKinlay Veg. Crop Pests iv. 88 In mid-May alatae disperse to colonise new host plants on which further batches of apterae and, later, alatae are produced parthenogenetically. 2004 D. E. Briggs et al. Brewing vii. 240 The migrating alatae may not colonize the first hop plant on which they land. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1922 |
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