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单词 palmyre
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palmyren.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French palmyre.
Etymology: < French palmyre (Cuvier Règne animal (1830) III. 205) < scientific Latin Palmyra , genus name (so called by M. J. C. L. de Savigny; reported in Lamarck Hist. nat. anim. sans vertèbres (1818) V. 306, where the fan-like appendages are described as ‘palmes obtuses’), apparently in allusion to the palm (see palmyra n.).N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pæ·lməiəɹ) /ˈpælmaɪə(r)/.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
A scale worm, Palmyra aurifera (family Aphroditidae), having a fan-like arrangement of large flattened appendages on the dorsal surface.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Palmyre, a worm of the genus Palmyra.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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