单词 | head-foot |
释义 | > as lemmashead-foot head-foot n. [ < head n.1 + foot n., after head-footed adj.] Zoology (in molluscs) the soft structure lying below or anterior to the visceral mass, consisting of the head merging into the protrusible foot (in a gastropod) or into the tentacles (in a cephalopod). ΚΠ 1929 Encycl. Brit. V. 150/1 On the posterior side of this head-foot (cephalo-pedal mass) is a muscular tube, the funnel. 1993 E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. (ed. 3) viii. 215/2 The head-foot, i.e. the protrusible part of the body, can be withdrawn inside the shell by retractor muscles. < as lemmas |
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