| 单词 | wing vein | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaswing vein  (a)   In sense  1   (in reference to parts, structure, or function), as  wing area,  wing-beat,  wing-bone,  wing feather,  wing flight,  wing-length,  wing membrane,  wing neuration,  wing patch,  wing pattern,  wing pinion,  wing power,  wing quill,  wing ray,  wing shoulder,  wing-span,  wing-spread,  wing vein. ΚΠ 1582    R. Stanyhurst tr.  Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis  iv. 70  				Furth she quicklye galops, with wingflight swallolyke hastning. 1673    Gentlewomans Compan. 114  				Put under the wing-Pinions on each side the long slices of flesh which you did cut from the Breast-bone. 1704    J. Petiver Gazophylacii III. 37  				Its Belly, Wing-shoulders, Collar, and about the Eyes white. 1752    J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 343  				The exterior wing~feathers are black. 1815    J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. IX.  i. 3  				Interior wing-quills externally margined. 1826    G. Samouelle Gen. Direct. collecting Exotic Insects & Crustacea 37  				The Pterigostia or wing-bones, hairy. 1837    Penny Cycl. VII. 25/1  				It [sc. a bat] hybernates..snugly wrapped up in the wing-membranes. 1856    Zoologist 14 5157  				The wing-veins of insects. 1856    Zoologist 14 5195  				The Wing-rays of Insects. 1872    E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 100  				Wing-patch resolved into two bars. 1872    E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 174  				When very young, the wing-markings more fulvous. 1893    A. Newton et al.  Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 269  				Those..which can soar are mostly large birds, with a relatively large wing~area. 1897    ‘N. Blanchan’ Bird Neighbors 143  				Bank Swallow... About an inch shorter than the English sparrow, but apparently much larger because of its wide wing-spread. 1902    Spectator 26 July 112  				The wing-power of the dragon-flies. 1909    Westm. Gaz. 2 Nov. 2/3  				For wing-beats of great angels we would hear the herdsman's call. 1910    Encycl. Brit. XIII. 432/1  				Orthopteroid wing-neuration. 1911    Encycl. Brit. XVI. 469/1  				The darkening of wing-patterns in many species of Lepidoptera. 1922    J. Joyce Ulysses  ii. xv. [Circe] 485  				Head askew, arches his back and hunched wingshoulders. 1927    Daily Express 31 Aug. 8/3  				It..is shaped like the wing-bone of a chicken. 1943    A. Clarke Coll. Plays 		(1963)	 173  				This big wind that filled My wingbones blew me into the trees. 1946    Nature 21 Dec. 904/1  				The accompanying table shows..the weight in kgm. and wing-length in cm. of the female. 1949    Brit. Birds 42 187  				The wing-span was found to measure nearly four feet, and the length was 21 inches. 1957    New Yorker 13 July 22/2  				We got over six hundred bats, from insectivorous ones with an eight-inch wingspread to fruit eaters with a five-foot wingspread. 1971    Sci. Amer. Dec. 79/3  				For aerodynamic reasons large birds have a slow wingbeat. 1977    P. Way Super-Celeste 123  				The skull and upper bones of the [eagle's] wingspan had.. driven like a cannon ball into the pilot's belly. < as lemmas | 
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