单词 | head-footed |
释义 | > as lemmashead-footed head-footed adj. [ < head n.1 + footed adj., after scientific Latin Cephalopoda cephalopoda n.; compare cephalopod n. and cephalopodous adj.] Zoology having a ring of tentacles attached to the head, as is characteristic of cephalopod molluscs. ΚΠ 1826 A. Eaton Zool. Text-bk. 111 I include the whole grand division, Mollusca, in one class; though Cuvier subdivides it into the classes, Cephalopodia, head-footed—Pteropodia, wing-footed [etc.] 1851 T. Wright & G. F. Richardson Introd. Geol. (new ed.) viii. 248 [The head] is surrounded by a circle of fleshy processes, or feet, from whence the name of the class, ‘head-footed’, is derived. 1920 T. D. A. Cockerell Zoölogy xxxiv. 250 The Cephalopoda or head-footed mollusks include the octopus, squid, nautilus, and the extinct ammonites. 2012 J. F. Morrissey & J. L. Sumich Introd. Biol. Marine Life (ed. 10) 94 Squids, like other cephalopods, are called the head-footed mollusks because the head bears a crown of appendages that is homologous to the foot in other mollusks. < as lemmas |
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