单词 | myxinid |
释义 | myxinidn.adj. Zoology. A. n. A hagfish of the family Myxinidae, in which the gills on each side characteristically have a common opening.Some authors have placed all extant hagfishes in this family, but most now exclude from it members of the family Eptatretidae (formerly Bdellostomidae). ΚΠ 1959 W. Andrew Textbk. Compar. Histol. iv. 100 In Bdellostoma heterotrema the epidermis may be as much as 20 cells in thickness in the adult but in the myxinids in general it is less than 10 cells thick. 1965 Systematic Zool. 14 292/2 The agnathans evolved rasping dentitions (lampreys) or protrusible biting tongues (myxinids). 1981 Jrnl. Fish Biol. 19 73 (title) A new species of hagfish of the genus Myxine, with notes on other eastern Atlantic myxinids. 1995 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 349 119/2 Considerably more information is available for eptatretid hagfishes than for myxinids. B. adj. Of or belonging to the family Myxinidae; of the nature of a myxinid. ΚΠ 1985 Ecol. Monogr. 55 453/1 After one of these crabs was injured, >25 myxinid hagfish appeared almost instantly to eat it. 1995 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 349 123/1 Only three myxinid embryos have ever been found. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1959 |
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