单词 | sucking stomach |
释义 | > as lemmassucking stomach sucking stomach n. Zoology a stomach in certain invertebrates that expands so as to provide a food reservoir (formerly interpreted as the means by which the animal imbibed fluid). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > stomach sucking stomach1886 1886 F. R. Cheshire Bees & Bee-keeping I. vii. 94 Cook calls the honey-sac the ‘sucking stomach’, using an old, but extremely misleading, title. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life 503 The stomodaeum..may be provided with a dilatation or so-called sucking stomach. 1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 98 The organ is then known as the food-reservoir or ‘sucking stomach’, but the latter expression is misleading and incorrect. < as lemmas |
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