| 单词 | abdominal leg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasabdominal leg abdominal leg n. Zoology (a) (in various invertebrates) a leg attached to the abdomen; (b) Entomology a fleshy appendage of an abdominal segment of a caterpillar or other insect larva; = proleg n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > parts of > fleshy abdominal limb proleg1817 abdominal leg1819 proped1842 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 75 Six thoracic legs and no abdominal legs... Insecta. 1827 R. T. Gore tr. C. G. Carus Introd. Compar. Anat. Animals I. 106 In Caterpillars there is in addition to these a variable number of abdominal legs, which consist of a kind of fleshy sucker. 1915 Science 29 Oct. 619/2 The females [of the crab Cancer magister] lay in the fall from three quarters to one and a half million eggs, which are carried attached to the abdominal legs until they hatch. 1959 Bios 30 97 The caterpillar is the eating-growing phase,—the somatic organism, with stubby, crawling true legs, and fleshy, temporary, abdominal legs, mandibulate mouthparts,..and no reproductive organs. 2005 M. W. Kirschner & J. C. Gerhart Plausibility of Life ii. 65 Legs on the thorax became longer and differentiated, and the abdominal legs were suppressed entirely in the adult. < as lemmas |
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