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单词 quadripennate
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quadripennaten.adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; partly modelled on a Latin lexical item, and partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: quadri- comb. form, pennate adj.
Etymology: < quadri- comb. form + pennate adj., after scientific Latin Quadripennia, French quadripennes (both P. A. Latreille Familles naturelles du règne animal (1825)), name of a former group of insects.
Entomology. Obsolete. rare.
A. n.
An insect having four wings; spec. an insect belonging to Latreille's group Quadripennia, having four wings and lacking wing cases (including the orders Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, and ‘ Neuroptera’).
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1842 R. Owen in W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1007/1 Quadripennates, Quadripennes, the name of a section of Anelytrous insects, including those which have four wings.
B. adj.
Having four wings.
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1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Quadripennate, having four wings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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