单词 | maxilliped |
释义 | maxillipedn. Zoology. Any of a set of appendages occurring in pairs behind the maxillae in crustaceans, and used for feeding. Also called foot-jaw, jaw-foot. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > mouth-like appendage maxilla1798 foot-jaw1828 maxilliped1846 masticatory foot1852 mouth organ1863 gnathite1870 jaw-foot1871 gnathobase1881 jaw-process1881 malipede1883 1846 J. D. Dana in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 1 226 Order Entomostraca. Tribe Cyclopacea... Maxillipeds, one pair: sometimes simple maxillæ. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. xxxviii. 207 Two pairs of ‘maxillipedes’. 1883 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Nov. 342 They are somewhat analogous to the maxillipedes of Crustacea. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 457/1 In the maxillipeds and the trunk-legs it is common to find..a seven-jointed stem, the endopod. 1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 395 On the thorax the first three pairs of limbs are modified as maxillipedes. 1976 Sci. Amer. Jan. 81/2 Once the prey is stabbed it is pulled towards the stomatopod's mouth-parts and ripped to pieces by its sharp, serrated mandibles and by its third, fourth and fifth maxillipeds. Derivatives maxilliˈpedary adj. rare ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [adjective] > of parts of > relating to mouth-like appendage maxillipedary1877 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 311 The sternal regions of the three maxillipedary somites have the same characters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1846 |
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