单词 | pala |
释义 | palan.1 A small Indian tree, Wrightia tinctoria (family Apocynaceae), with white wood and a milky sap. pala indigo n. a kind of indigo obtained from the leaves of this tree; (also) the tree itself. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 272/1 Pala, a name in India for the Wrightia tinctoria, from which a species of indigo is obtained. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 2290/2 Wrightia tinctoria. Pala indigo plant. Small, glabrous tree. 1986 P. V. Bole & Y. Vaghani Field Guide Common Trees of India 85 Pala Indigo. Wrightia tinctoria... Leaves: Opposite, milky, several times longer than broad... Common in deciduous forests all over India. 2003 www.rainwaterharvesting.org 7 Mar. (O.E.D. Archive) Nair knows that there is water where there are pala trees (trees with white milky sap). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022). palan.2 Entomology. A shovel-shaped or scoop-shaped structure; spec. one forming an extension of the tarsus of the foreleg in certain aquatic heteropteran insects, used chiefly in feeding and (by the male) in mating. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of > aquatic bug or tarsal joint of water bug1745 pala1865 needle-bug1896 1865 J. W. Douglas & J. Scott Brit. Hemiptera I. 596 [Corixa affinis] Very like C. Panzeri, but smaller, and different in the marking of the pronotum, and the form of the palæ. 1892 E. Saunders Hemiptera Heteroptera Brit. Islands 336 C[orixa] Fallenii... The palæ of the male are truncate at the base. 1906 J. B. Smith Explan. Terms Entomol. 95 Pala, the shovel-shaped tarsal joints in many aquatic Heteroptera. 1970 T. E. Woodward et al. in Insects Austral. (C.S.I.R.O.) xxvi. 390/1 The fore legs of corixids are short, and the tarsus modified as a hair-fringed scoop or pala for particle feeding. 1991 Freshwater Forum 1 74 One of those specimens possessed a pala with a marked proximal curve in the distal row of pegs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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