| 单词 | protheca | 
| 释义 | prothecan. Zoology and Palaeontology.   An enclosing structure or sheath, or a part of one, which is primary in nature or basal in position (cf. theca n. 3a); esp.		 (a) (in a coral polyp) the theca in its initial or rudimentary form (rare);		 (b) (in a foraminiferan of the superfamily  Fusulinacea) an unmodified primary wall;		 (c) (in a graptolite of the order  Graptoloidea) the basal part of a theca, attached to the sicula. Cf. prototheca n. at proto- comb. form 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > 			[noun]		 > suborder Foraminifera > member of > primary wall protheca1907 1907    Science 10 May 734/1  				This paper considers..Streptelasma and allied genera of the rugose corals and describes the protheca as observed in these genera. 1937    L. G. Henbest in  Jrnl. Palaeontol. 11 212/1  				I am applying the term epitheca to all secondary shell material [of Fusulina] such as tectorium and chomata, and the term protheca to the primary wall-layers. 1940    Chambers's Techn. Dict. 680/1  				Protheca, the calyx rudiment in coral formation. 1958    Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 B. 241 495  				The first theca [in Monograptus separatus]..begins with a slowly widening protheca; near the tip of the sicula the rate of prothecal widening increases. 1972    Jrnl. Paleontol. 46 925/1  				A second table summarizes the regression analyses..between radius vector and protheca thickness [sc. in fusulinids]. 1993    E. N. K. Clarkson Invertebr. Palaeontol. & Evol. 		(ed. 3)	 x. 311/2  				Each theca [in Saetograptus chimaera] has two parts: the protheca, proximal to the nema, through which the common canal runs; and a metatheca, which is the external part. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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