单词 | divaricator |
释义 | divaricatorn. That which divaricates; a muscle which draws parts asunder, as the muscle which opens the shells of Brachiopods. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 234 Divaricator muscle, passing from hinge process in the dorsal valve into the peduncle. 18.. Huxley in Cent. Dict. Divaricators of the wall of the sac. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 693 In the hinged Brachiopoda..the dorsal valve is furnished with a projecting cardinal process to which are attached the divaricator muscles. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1870 |
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