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单词 pauropod
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pauropodn.

Brit. /ˈpɔːrəpɒd/, U.S. /ˈpɔrəˌpɑd/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Pauropoda.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Pauropoda, order name (J. Lubbock 1868 in Trans. Linn. Soc. Zool. 26 181) < ancient Greek παῦρος little, small ( < the same Indo-European base as few adj., pron., and n.) + scientific Latin -poda (see -pod comb. form), after scientific Latin Pauropus, genus name (J. Lubbock 1867, in Jrnl. Proc. Entomol. Soc. 1866 p. xxxiii; valid publication in same source as order name), so called in allusion to the relatively small number of legs.
Zoology.
A myriapod of the small class (formerly order) Pauropoda, resembling a minute, pale, soft-bodied centipede, with branched antennae, usually nine pairs of legs, and no eyes.Recorded earliest in attributive use.
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pauropod1879
1879 Amer. Naturalist 13 603 (heading) An account of a new genus of minute pauropod myriapods.
1897 Amer. Naturalist 31 71 It may be added that the pauropods can climb, though scarcely as well as Polyxenus.
1936 Ecology 17 149 No native pauropods have been described from ‘Polynesia,’ but a few supposedly introduced forms..have been taken in Hawaii.
1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxiii. 127/2 In some arachnids.., most pauropods, and some larval insects..respiratory exchange occurs across the body surface.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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