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单词 elytron
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elytronn.

/ˈɛlɪtrɒn/
Forms: Plural elytra; also 1700s elitra.
Etymology: < Greek ἔλυτρον a sheath.
A sheath or covering.
1. (See quot.) Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Elytron..Hippocrates has appropriated the word to signify the membranes, which involve the spinal marrow.
1882 in New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon
2. The outer hard wing-case of a coleopterous insect, plural elytra. Also in combinations, as elytra-like adj.
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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.
3. ‘A term applied to the shield-like plates or notopodial appendages on the back of some polychætous annelids’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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1855 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 2) xiii. 309 In Aphrodite aculeata..the tale of the real uses of the elytra or scales is plainly told.
1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 134 The elytra are special appendages of the parapodia.
4. ‘A term for the vagina’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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