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单词 terebra
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terebran.

/ˈtɛrɪbrə/
Forms: Also 1600s–1700s terebrum.
Etymology: < Latin terebra, terebrum a borer.
1. An instrument for boring; in Surgery, a trephine, or the boring part of it; also, a miner's drill. Obsolete.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tirefond de Chirurgien, a Surgeons Terebra, or Piercer; an Instrument which he puts vnto diuers vses.
a1705 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (1713) ii. v. 224 This ends at the Place which the Workmen pierce with their Terebra... The Terebra sometimes finds great Trees.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Terebra, or Terebrum,..also an Instrument to engrave on Stones.
1750 Mem. Royal Acad. Surg. Paris I. 162 Instruments hitherto used to raise the bones of the cranium depressed on the dura mater are..the Terebra.
1787 C. B. Trye in Med. Communications 2 149 I made several perforations in the cranium with the terebra of the trephine.
2. Entomology. The modified ovipositor of certain female insects, esp. terebrant Hymenoptera, with which they puncture leaves, fruit, etc., in order to insert their eggs.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > abdomen > ovipositor > modified ovipositor
terebra1713
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 78 The hollow Instrument (terebra he [sc. Malpighi] calls it, and we may English it piercer) wherewith many Flies are provided.]
1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. vi. 429 The..Oak-Ball Ichneumon strike it's Terebra into an Oak-Apple.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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