单词 | pinniped |
释义 | pinnipedn.adj. Zoology. A. n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > member of sea-wolfc1550 pinniped1842 Pinnipedia1857 pinnigrade1862 slimskin1884 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 929/2 Pinnipeds.., the name of a section of crabs..that have the last pair of feet..terminated by a flattened joint fitted for swimming. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pinniped, n., a member of the Pinnipedes or Pinnipedia. [Pinnipedes, 1. In ornith.: (a) same as Pinnatipedes. (b) Same as Totipalmatæ or Steganopodes... 3. In Crustacea, crabs which have some of the limbs like flippers.] 2. Any of various carnivorous mammals constituting the order or suborder Pinnipedia; a seal, a sea lion, a walrus. Cf. fissiped n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] amphibia1833 pinniped1866 1866 T. N. Gill (title) Prodrome of a monograph of pinnipeds. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 194 Charts shewing distribution of the pinnapeds of the world. 1925 Science 21 Aug. 172/2 His stay was brief, but sufficiently long for him to take a census of the pinnipeds on the island. 1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 438 The author believes that another pinnipede may also use echolocation when swimming near islands. 2005 National Parks Spring 53/2 The much shorter trail to Cardwell Point..may not have as many pinnipeds on the beaches, but the experience is more intimate. B. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > having feet like fins pinniped1858 pin-footed1864 Pinnipedian1880 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 967/1 Pinnipes, adj., Zoöl. Applied..by Cuvier and Latreille to a section of the Crustacea Decapoda Brachyura..: pinnipede. 1890 Cent. Dict. Pinniped, a..., (b) Pinnatiped or lobiped, as a bird... (c) Totipalmate or steganopodous, as a bird... (d) Having alate locomotory appendages, as a pteropod. 2. Of or relating to the mammalian order or suborder Pinnipedia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [adjective] pinnigrade1849 pinniped1858 Pinnipedian1880 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 967/1 Pinnipes, adj., Zoöl. Applied by Illiger, Goldfuss, Ficinus and Carus to an Order (Pinnipedia..) of Mammifera..: pinnipede. 1881 Proc. Royal Soc. 1880–1 31 326 It [sc. Procyon] differs from those composing both the digitigrade and pinniped sections of the carnivora. 1930 Q. Rev. Biol. 5 182/1 The facial vibrissae..have a characteristic arrangement in the different pinniped genera and species. 1991 C. Tudge Global Ecol. (BNC) 49 The pelagic zone also includes a few creatures that are land-based..:..the pinniped carnivores—seals, sea-lions, fur seals, and walruses; [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1842 |
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