单词 | nemertean |
释义 | nemerteann.adj. Zoology. A. n. Any member of the taxonomic group (now a phylum) Nemertea (or Rhynchocoela), comprising carnivorous, mostly marine worms with a long, unsegmented, often flattened body and an eversible proboscis used to capture invertebrate prey. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Nemertea > member of nemertean1854 nemertian1868 pilidium1868 nemertid1870 nemertine1873 rhynchocoel1878 rhynchocoelan1960 1854 C. Girard in Jrnl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 6 365 (title) Descriptions of new Nemerteans and Planarians from the coast of the Carolinas. 1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) vii. §418. 156 The male Nemerteans present phenomena very similar to those just described as occurring in the female. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 641 The larger Nemerteans feed on fixed tubicolous Chaetopoda. 1930 Biol. Bull. 58 208 This type of excretory organ may be designated a metanephridium in order to distinguish it from the more usual type, protonephridium, found in nemerteans. 1974 Nature 8 Feb. 408/1 Nemerteans are never parasitic. 1984 L. W. Browder Developmental Biol. (ed. 2) x. 444 Spiral cleavage is found in some flatworms, the nemerteans, the mollusks (except cephalopods), and some annelids. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. v. 205 Some zoologists argue that..nemerteans cannot therefore be closely related to the platyhelminths but instead are closer to the molluscs and annelids. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of nemerteans or the phylum Nemertea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [adjective] > belonging to class Nemertea nemertine1852 nemertian1861 rhynchocoelous1870 nemertean1873 nemertid1877 rhynchocoel1877 rhynchocoelic1898 rhynchocoelan1967 1873 W. C. McIntosh Monogr. Brit. Marine Annelids (Ray Soc.) i. p. xii The former did much to place Nemertean anatomy on a proper basis. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 814 This species is found in saccules..between the body-walls and digestive tract of its Nemertean host. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Mar. 262/2 William Borlase, the eighteenth-century Cornish antiquary, first described a nemertean worm. 1994 E. E. Ruppert & R. D. Barnes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 6) vii. 270/2 Nemertean blood vessels are lined by a continuous endothelium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1854 |
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