单词 | explanate |
释义 | explanateadj. Zoology (chiefly Entomology) and Botany. Spread out in a broad, flattened form. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > spread out flat explanate1803 1803 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 16 No. 584 Stigmas revolute, hanging over the anthers, from complicate explanate, pubescently fringed, lucid. 1848 S. Maunder Treasury Nat. Hist. Gloss. 784/2 Explanate, when the sides of the prothorax are so depressed and dilated as to form a broad margin. 1908 G. H. Girty Guadalupian Fauna 315 Some of the specimens are explanate and have a triangular shape. 1953 Kew Bull. 8 190 Red-brown portions of stems with oblong-cylindric, green portions with markedly explanate lobes. 2013 J. F. Lawrence & A. Slipinski Austral. Beetles I. 186/2 The sides of both prothorax and elytra are explanate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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