| 单词 | prop-leg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprop-leg prop-leg n. Entomology (now rare) = proleg n.; cf. prop-foot n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > parts of > pro-leg(s) stilt prolegs1826 prop-leg1854 prop-foot1862 1854 C. Fox Amer. Text Bk. Pract. & Sci. Agric. 133 Wire-worm... Underneath the last ring is a short retractile wart, or prop leg. 1926 R. S. Lull Org. Evol. xv. 241 The caterpillar of Selenia tetralunaria, when it needs particularly to escape observation, grasps the branch with its two hinder pair of prop-legs and throws its body outward at an angle, in a rigid posture as though in a cataleptic state. 1955 Ecology 36 347/1 The acrobatic [Sylepta] larva..grasping and freeing the lines of silk with the crotchets of his amazing prop-legs. < as lemmas |
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