单词 | mouth-bearing |
释义 | > as lemmasmouth-bearing mouth-bearing adj. Zoology now rare having or developing a mouth; (of a protozoan) having a definite oral cavity. ΚΠ 1875 H. A. Nicholson Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 2) 27 A rough and useful division is into mouth-bearing or ‘stomatode’ Protozoa..and mouthless or ‘astomatous’ Protozoa. 1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ xx. 530 The ‘style’, a rod of the calcareous skeleton, which in many genera of Stylasteridæ acts as a support to the mouth-bearing polyp within its pore. 1915 E. R. Lankester Diversions of Naturalist x. 84 They [sc. sea-anemones] have..the shape of small ‘martello’ towers with their adhesive disk below and the mouth-bearing platform above. 1998 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 95 3673/1 The animal pole of the egg gives rise to the posterior pole of the larva, which in turn gives rise to the mouth-bearing pole of the cnidarian polyp and to the head of the worm. < as lemmas |
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