单词 | aliethmoid |
释义 | > as lemmasaliethmoid aliethmoid n. (and adj.) Brit. , U.S. now rare a lateral expansion of the ethmoid bone in certain birds; also as adj.ΚΠ 1866 W. K. Parker in Proc. Zool. Soc. 5 179 The posterior part of each thin, outstanding, and down-turned ‘wing’ may not inappropriately be called the aliethmoid, the middle the aliseptal, and the anterior the alinasal. 1869 W. K. Parker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 159 800 The roots of the cartilaginous aliethmoid. 1989 A. Anderson Prodigious Birds (2003) iii. 33/1 It arises from the rostrum (strictly speaking from the intervening inferior aliethmoid bone) at an angle of about 45 degrees. < as lemmas |
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