单词 | remipede |
释义 | remipeden.adj. Zoology. A. n. Any of various aquatic insects and crustaceans having limbs that are oar-shaped and adapted for swimming. Now: spec. any of several small primitive crustaceans constituting the class Remipedia, which are found in marine caves and have wormlike segmented bodies, each segment bearing a pair of biramous swimming limbs.Originally known only as a fossil, the first living members of the Remipedia were discovered in 1979. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > miscellaneous types > member of genus Remipes sea cockroach1756 remipede1826 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > having tarsi adapted for swimming remipede1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 170 I have some suspicion that..the remipedes, Notonecta, Sigara, &c. may find their prototypes among the Crustacea. 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1040/2 Remipeds, Remipedes,..the name of an order of Coleopterous insects, including those which have tarsi adapted for swimming. 1850 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Remiped, an animal. The name has been given to certain crustaceans, also to certain coleopterous insects. 1984 Q. Rev. Biol. 59 489/1 Schram's essay on the recently discovered class Remipedia opens up the question of what the earliest crustaceans were like—did they have simple biramous paddles as do the remipeds? 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. ix. 276 Most authorities have sought a homonomous crustacean ancestor, and there have been two outstanding candidates: the cephalocarids, and the recently discovered remipedes. B. adj. Of an aquatic insect or crustacean: having limbs that are oar-shaped and adapted for swimming. Now: spec. of or relating to the class Remipedia of crustaceans. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Remiped, having feet that are oar-shaped, or that are used as oars. 1985 Paleobiology 11 363/1 Let us now be wary of a similar deification of the remipede hypothesis. 2002 Paleobiology 28 162/1 The remipede crustaceans..bear paired diverticula along the entire midgut. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1826 |
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