单词 | patagium |
释义 | patagiumn. 1. Entomology. Each of a pair of articulated plates on the dorsolateral aspect of the prothorax of many Lepidoptera. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. DerivativesΚΠ 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). < n.1826 |
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