单词 | food groove |
释义 | > as lemmasfood groove food groove n. Zoology (in various aquatic invertebrates) a groove along which food is channelled towards the mouth. ΚΠ 1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. of Palaeontol. (ed. 3) 459 This median groove clearly corresponds with the ‘food-groove’ of the arm and disc of a Crinoid, and may therefore be termed the ‘ambulacral groove’. 1989 S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 105 Most [marine arthropods] use their walking legs to grasp food particles and pass them forward to the mouth along a food groove situated in the ventral (bottom) mid-line, between the legs. 2003 Biol. Bull. 205 296/2 Particles caught between these two ciliary bands are transported towards the mouth by cilia of the food groove. < as lemmas |
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