单词 | cubital |
释义 | cubitaladj. 1. Of the length of a cubit. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > one cubit long cubitalc1420 c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 431 And cubital let make her longitude. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xi. 207 The towers..being so high, that unto men below they [the watchmen] appeared in a cubitall stature. View more context for this quotation 1867 Ecclesiologist 223 Lines chiselled in cubital letters on its frieze. 2. a. Anatomy. Pertaining to the forearm, or the ulna. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [adjective] > ulna cubital1611 ulnar1803 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Artere The cubitall arterie, a branch of th' Axillaire. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. viii. 125 The inferior cubital nerves. b. Zoology. Pertaining to the corresponding part in animals, or to the cubit of an insect's wing. ΚΠ 1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 338 Genus Cinips..upper wings with one radial triangular cell, and two or three cubital ones. 1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 703 Cubital edge of fore-arm rather darker than other upper parts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018). > as lemmasˈcubital ˈcubital adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of wing(s) > of or relating to nervure cubital1898 1898 Amer. Naturalist 32 234 The medio-cubital cross-vein. This is a cross-vein extending from media to cubitus. 1964 R. M. Fox & J. W. Fox Introd. Compar. Entomol. iv. 117 A complete cubital system is present in only a few insects... Posterior to the cubitus is a variable number of veins. < adj.c1420 as lemmas |
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