单词 | antlia |
释义 | antlian. 1. Astronomy. With capital initial. (The name of) an inconspicuous constellation of the southern hemisphere bounded by Hydra, Pyxis, Vela, and Centaurus; the Air Pump; more fully Antlia Pneumatica (now rare). Also (in form Antliae) used as postmodifier in the names of stars belonging to this constellation. Abbreviated Ant (no point). ΚΠ 1786 J. Anderson Inst. Physics (ed. 4) 364 There are sixty-five Southern Constellations, to wit... Coma Pictoris, Pyxis Nautica, Antlia Pneumatica, [etc.]. 1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 475/2 Antlia Pneumatica. 1875 Astron. & Meteorol. Observ. Radcliffe Observatory 32 120/2 April 8. γ Antliæ—very faint. 1899 R. H. Allen Star-names 43 Although inconspicuous, and without any named star, Antlia is of special interest to astronomers from containing the noted variable S, discovered in 1888. 1928 Sci. News Let. 15 Dec. 371/3 Some of these southern constellations that the members of the Hoover party will see have such queer names as Antlia Pneumatica, the air pump; Horologium, the clock; [etc.]. 1990 P. S. Harrington Touring Universe through Binoculars vii. 88 S Antliae is the easiest variable in Antlia to find and follow with binoculars. 2007 A. V. S. Castelli et al. in I. Saviane et al. Groups Galaxies Nearby Universe 109 The Antlia cluster..is the third nearest galaxy cluster..after Virgo and Fornax. 2. Entomology. The spiral tubular proboscis or tongue of butterflies and moths; (also more widely) a similar proboscis in other insects, used for sucking liquid food; a haustellum. Now rare or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > proboscis nib1585 beak1658 promuscis1658 proboscisa1660 trunk1661 probe1664 trump1752 antlia1826 siphuncle1826 spiritrompe1831 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 464 There are five kinds of imperfect mouth to be met with in insects that take their food by suction..the third, peculiar to the Lepidoptera, is with me an Antlia. 1869 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. 211 These maxillæ adhere together by their inner surfaces, and thus form a spiral ‘trunk,’ or ‘antlia.’ 1893 B. T. Lowne Anat., Physiol., Morphol., & Devel. Blow-fly iii. 26 The parts of the [dipteran] mouth are exceedingly complex, and differ far more profoundly from the primitive type than either the tongue of the bee or the spiral antlia of the Lepidoptera. 1905 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 32 158 The antlia has also at its anterior end rather unyielding walls. 1960 S. R. Christophers Aëdes Aegypti xxvi. 573 The oesophageal pump has been termed the ‘sucking pump’ or antlia by Thompson; pharynx by Sinton and Covell; oesophageal pump by Jobling in Culicoides; and posterior pharynx by Snodgrass (1935), and by Robinson (1939) in Anopheles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1786 |
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