单词 | rostriferous |
释义 | † rostriferousadj. Zoology. Obsolete. Having a rostrum; spec. designating gastropod molluscs having a rostrum rather than a retractile proboscis (sometimes classified in a division Rostrifera). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having a snout > of the beak > having a beak billed1399 rostrous1651 rostrated1797 beak-bearing1830 rostriferous1852 beaked1869 1852 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Crustacea Pt. I 440 Ophthalmic ring not rostriferous. 1856 Proc. Zool. Soc. 24 101 The Tænioglossa or Rostriferous Mollusca. 1866 Jrnl. Entomol. 2 414 Dr. Gerstaecker..refers the rostriferous families [of beetles] to the ‘Coleoptera cryptopentamera’. 1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 652/1 The modification in the form of the snout upon which the mouth is placed, leading to the distinction of ‘proboscidiferous’ and ‘rostriferous’ Gastropods. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 482 With mouth..at the end of a non-introversible snout, i.e. rostriferous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1852 |
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