| 单词 | lung book |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslung book lung book n. a lamellate respiratory organ found in spiders, scorpions, and certain other arachnids; cf. book lung n. at book n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > of lung book lung book1881 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > member of > parts of > respiratory organ > lung book lung book1881 1861 J. Blackwall Hist. Spiders Great Brit. & Ireland I. i. 4 The internal organs of respiration in connexion with the anterior pair of stigmata present the appearance of membraneous sacs formed by lamellæ applied to one another like the leaves of a book.] 1881 E. R. Lankester in Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 21 541 The lamellæ of the Scorpion's lung-book. 1892 J. A. Thomson Outl. Zool. 251 Scorpions have ‘lung-books’, and most spiders have both lung-books and tracheæ. 1910 E. R. Lankester Sci. from Easy Chair xxxi. 291 Fig. 49..h, heart connected by four big veins with b, the lung-bosks [sic], or air-gills. 1932 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata xv. 447 The spiders, at least, have passed through a primitive lung-book stage from which they have not all emerged. In fact they show all the stages of replacement of lung books by tracheae. 1971 Nature 12 Feb. 455/1 The species [sc. Micrathena gracilis, a spider] possesses a well-developed stridulatory organ with a file on the cover of the lung book (the respiratory organ). < as lemmas |
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