| 单词 | air tube |
| 释义 | > as lemmasair tube air tube n. a tube designed or used for the passage of air; spec. (a) a trachea or tracheole in an insect; (b) the inner tube of a pneumatic tyre. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > respiration > trachea air tube1673 air vessel1673 the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > passage, duct, or tube for conducting air ventiduct1686 air passage1771 air tube1877 air pipe1889 airline1893 1673 N. Grew Idea Phytol. Hist. iii. 117 As the saline Principles are the Mould of the succiferous, so are the aerial of the Air-Tubes. 1758 T. Flloyd & J. Hill tr. J. Swammerdam Bk. Nature i. iii. vi. 168/1 Each of the three kinds of Bees makes a noise by the motion of its wings, which is increased by the internal air propelled out of their bodies through the air tubes. 1806 R. Heber Jrnl. in A. Heber Life R. Heber (1830) I. v. 160 The building is..well ventilated with air-tubes. 1832 C. T. Thackrah Effects Arts on Health & Longevity (ed. 2) 40 Cloth-dressers..suffer considerably in the air-tube and the lungs. 1877 Engineering 16 Nov. 381/3 The air-tube of a diver's dress. 1894 Work 315/2 Repairing Air-tube of 1892 Dunlop. 1984 Econ. Hist. Rev. 37 37 The component parts of the tyres—the outer strips for forming the tread of the tyre, the air tubes, and the canvas—were purchased from rubber manufacturers. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. x. 288 Size is restricted..by their method of respiration, which limits their oxygen intake: a system of air-tubes called tracheae that open into spiracles in the surface armour. < as lemmas |
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