| 单词 | song muscle |
| 释义 | > as lemmassong muscle song muscle n. now rare any of the muscles of the syrinx of a bird; (in later use also) (in an orthopteran insect) any of the muscles involved in stridulation (cf. sense 3b). ΚΠ 1851 Proc. Zool. Soc. 19 52 I am strongly inclined to believe that this section does not possess the song-muscles. 1916 J. N. Baskett Story of Birds xxx. 211 Others think the thrushes the highest [birds], because of the perfection of song muscles and the scaleless condition of the shank. 1995 Jrnl. Exper. Biol. 198 721/1 Gryllidae and Tettigonidae use the elytro-elytral method for stridulation, in which each contraction of the ‘song’ muscles is converted into vibrations of a higher frequency. < as lemmas |
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