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单词 ligula
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ligulan.

/ˈlɪɡjʊlə/
Etymology: < Latin ligula strap, spoon, by-form of lingula, < lingua tongue.
1. A narrow tongue-like strip or fillet.
a. Botany. A narrow strap-shaped part in a plant, as the ‘limb’ of a ray floret in composite flowers, a projection from the top of a leaf-sheath in grasses, ‘an appendage at the base of some forms of Corona’ (Henslow 1856).
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [noun] > strap-shaped part
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1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xix. 50 Ligula, a narrow Tongue, or Fillet.
1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) i. 10 [In grasses] there is often a thin membrane called a ligula, at the upper end of the sheath.
1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 371 Narrow leaves, with a long slit sheath and stipules adherent, forming a membranous ligula.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 392 Lycopodiaceæ... The leaves have no ligula.
b. Entomology (a) The ‘tongue’ of Crustaceans, Arachnids, and Insects, being a horny, membranous, or fleshy anterior part of the labium. (b) A tongue-like process on the elytra of certain aquatic beetles ( Cent. Dict.).
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > tongue-like
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > mouth > tongue
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > head > mouth-parts or trophi > ligula
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 363 Ligula, a capillary instrument between the lancets; probably representing the tongue of the perfect mouth.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 218 The labium..is formed of two parts; one inferior..is the chin (mentum), the other membranous [etc.]..is termed ligula.
1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 424 Their antennæ are always geniculate, and the ligula is small, rounded and concave, or cochleariform.
c. Anatomy. ‘A thin lamina occupying the angle between the cerebellum and the restiform body’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1888).
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1848 Quain's Elements Anat. (ed. 5) II. 724 The diverging posterior pyramids and restiform bodies surmounted along their margin by a band of nervous substance called the ligula.
2. A genus of cestoid worms, typical of the family Ligulidæ; a worm of this genus.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Cestodes > family Ligulidae > genus Ligula
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1840 E. Blyth et al. tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (1849) 649 The fourth Family of the Parenchymata—the Cestoidea—consists of only a single genus,—Ligula. These are the simplest in their organization of all the Entozoa.
1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates Introd. When Rudolphi spoke of the ligulæ of fishes which could continue to live in birds.
3. A genus of molluscs ( Cent. Dict.).
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1839 G. B. Sowerby Conchol. Man. 56.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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