pterobranchn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈtɛrəbraŋk/, U.S.

/ˈtɛrəˌbræŋk/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: ptero- comb. form, -branch comb. form.

Etymology: < ptero- comb. form + -branch comb. form, after scientific Latin Pterobranchia, class name (E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. (1885) XIX. 430/1). Compare French ptérobranche , adjective (1868 in Littré), ptérobranches , plural noun (1912 or earlier). Compare also French ptérodibranche (H. de Blainville 1816, in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomatique 28 122). With use as adjective compare earlier pterobranchiate adj.

Zoology.

A. n.

Any of various small, marine, usually colonial, tube-dwelling hemichordates constituting the class Pterobranchia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Hemichordata > [noun] > member of class Pterobranchia

pterobranch1909

1909 Geogr. Jrnl. 34 296 The author..accepts the pterobranchs as primitive relations of the ancestors of the vertebrate animals.

1949 New Biol. 6 118 The construction of the tubes in which both Graptolites and Pterobranchs live gives good reason for accepting Kozlowski's thesis.

1995 E. W. Knight-Jones & J. S. Ryland in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe xiii. 687 The only pterobranchs known from Britain belong to a minute colonial genus, atypical of hemichordates.

B. adj.

Of or relating to the hemichordate class Pterobranchia.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Hemichordata > [adjective] > of class Pterobranchia

pterobranch1949

1949 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 1 3 (title) A species of Rhabdopleura, the first pterobranch to be found fossil, is described from the London Clay of Hampshire.

1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms xiv. 175 Grobben has shown the principal transformations necessary to convert a pterobranch hemichordate into an echinoderm.

1993 Discover July 18/2 A pterobranch colony is typically an inch or so wide. It consists of a hardened mass of collagen inhabited by tens of zooids.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pterobranch
释义	pterobranchn.adj. Brit. /ˈtɛrəbraŋk/, U.S. /ˈtɛrəˌbræŋk/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: ptero- comb. form, -branch comb. form. Etymology: < ptero- comb. form + -branch comb. form, after scientific Latin Pterobranchia, class name (E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. (1885) XIX. 430/1). Compare French ptérobranche , adjective (1868 in Littré), ptérobranches , plural noun (1912 or earlier). Compare also French ptérodibranche (H. de Blainville 1816, in Bull. Sci. Soc. Philomatique 28 122). With use as adjective compare earlier pterobranchiate adj. Zoology. A. n. Any of various small, marine, usually colonial, tube-dwelling hemichordates constituting the class Pterobranchia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Hemichordata > [noun] > member of class Pterobranchia pterobranch1909 1909 Geogr. Jrnl. 34 296 The author..accepts the pterobranchs as primitive relations of the ancestors of the vertebrate animals. 1949 New Biol. 6 118 The construction of the tubes in which both Graptolites and Pterobranchs live gives good reason for accepting Kozlowski's thesis. 1995 E. W. Knight-Jones & J. S. Ryland in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe xiii. 687 The only pterobranchs known from Britain belong to a minute colonial genus, atypical of hemichordates. B. adj. Of or relating to the hemichordate class Pterobranchia. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Hemichordata > [adjective] > of class Pterobranchia pterobranch1949 1949 Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Geol. 1 3 (title) A species of Rhabdopleura, the first pterobranch to be found fossil, is described from the London Clay of Hampshire. 1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms xiv. 175 Grobben has shown the principal transformations necessary to convert a pterobranch hemichordate into an echinoderm. 1993 Discover July 18/2 A pterobranch colony is typically an inch or so wide. It consists of a hardened mass of collagen inhabited by tens of zooids. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1909
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