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单词 patagium
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patagiumn.

Brit. /pəˈteɪdʒɪəm/, /ˌpatəˈdʒʌɪəm/, U.S. /pəˈteɪdʒiəm/
Inflections: Plural patagia.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin patagium.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin patagium (T. Moufet Insectorum (1634) 98, in sense 1) < classical Latin patagium a gold edging or border on a Roman woman's tunic, perhaps < an unattested Greek form *παταγεῖον < ancient Greek πάταγος clatter, crash, of imitative origin + -εῖον , suffix forming nouns. In sense 2 after scientific Latin patagium (J. K. W. Illiger Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium (1811) 46).
1. Entomology. Each of a pair of articulated plates on the dorsolateral aspect of the prothorax of many Lepidoptera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > parts of > appendage on pronotum and thorax
patagium1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 368 Patagia... Two corneous scales observable in Lepidoptera, fixed on each side of the trunk, just behind the head, and covered with a long tuft of hair.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 381 The patagia or tippets that adorn their evanescent thorax.
1899 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. 311 The patagia..are of some interest in connection with the question of wing-like appendages on the prothorax of Palaeozoic insects, and they have been considered by some writers to be the equivalents of true wings.
1947 A. D. Imms Outl. Entomol. (ed. 3) iv. 135 The prothorax bears a pair of erectile lobes or patagia, well displayed in many Noctuidae, &c.
1991 Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) II. xli. 818/2 Prothorax [of Lepidoptera] usually small, often with a pair of stalked, dorsal protuberances, the patagia.
2. Zoology. A fold of skin, often membranous, extending along the side of the body of various flying or gliding mammals and reptiles, typically from the forelimb to the hindlimb, and acting as a parachute or wing; the wing and tail membrane of a bat; the gliding membrane of a flying squirrel or flying lemur.
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the world > animals > reptiles > [noun] > parts of
atterc1000
fingera1398
spear1608
pecten1713
supraciliary1838
postocular1856
patagium1857
podotheca1864
pretemporal1866
keeled scale1870
postnasal1871
prenasal1886
supracoracoid1897
hedonic gland1901
guanophore1924
chorio-allantois1933
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > wing > fold of skin which acts as parachute
patagium1857
1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Patagium, applied by Illiger to the membrane which performs the function of a wing in the Cheiroptera.
1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 374 An expanded flying membrane or ‘patagium’.
1907 Proc. Zool. Soc. Feb. 234 A bipedal animal never could or did develop a patagium without giving up bipedalism.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 697 (caption) Wing of Bat. A shows the patagium or fold of skin, beginning at the side of the neck.
1995 Canad. Geographic Mar. 52/2 It [sc. the southern flying squirrel] uses two furry membranes, called patagia, stretched loosely between its wrists and ankles. These billow like little parachutes to support the animal in flight.
3. Ornithology. A membranous fold of skin extending between the shoulder and wrist along both margins of the wing of a bird; esp. that of the front edge (propatagium).
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the world > animals > birds > parts of or bird defined by > [noun] > wing or wings > part of
pinion?a1425
juck1575
shoulder1735
wrista1836
wing1867
propatagium1872
thumb1872
patagium1887
flight-muscle1890
1887 Science 24 June 624 (caption) View, from the outer side, of the muscle of the patagium of the left wing of a passerine bird.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xx. 546 The existence of a slight web or patagium in front of the bird's wing may be recalled.
1967 Canad. Jrnl. Surg. 10 348/2 The tensor patagii longus muscle..tenses the cranial patagium and folds the wing after it has been outstretched.
1985 Jrnl. Field Ornithol. 56 251 Cattle eartags are easily applied to patagia of Black and Turkey vultures.

Derivatives

patagiate adj. [compare classical Latin patagiātus ornamented with a border] Obsolete rare formed into or having a patagium.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 Cent. Dict. Patagiate. 1. Formed into a patagium, as a fold of skin; patagial. 2. Having a patagium, as a flying-squirrel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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