| 单词 | tongue-case |
| 释义 | > as lemmastongue-case tongue-case n. Entomology the part of a pupa-case enclosing the ‘tongue’. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > pupa or chrysalis > case or puparium > part enclosing tongue glossotheca1826 tongue-case1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxi. 250 Before from the middle [proceeds] the tongue-case (Glosso-theca) [of pupæ]. 1885 H. C. McCook Tenants Old Farm 73 The long, slender object which you mistook for the cord by which a cocoon hangs is a tongue-case. < as lemmas |
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