| 单词 | elytra-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmaselytra-like 2. The outer hard wing-case of a coleopterous insect, plural elytra. Also in combinations, as elytra-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > parts of > wing-case habergeona1637 gubernaculums1661 case-wing1686 sheath-wing?1703 elytron1774 shard1811 elytrum1816 sheath1826 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VIII. 139 The..elytron, or case for the wings [of the beetle]. 1777 Henly in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 123 Elitra of the stag-beetle. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. III. 237 The larva..is destitute both of wings and elytra. 1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. II ii. 1370 The two elytra-like prolongations of the shell. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. x. 343 The females of some water beetles have their elytra deeply grooved. < as lemmas |
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