| 单词 |
drepanid |
| 释义 |
drepanid Zool.|ˈdrɛpɑːnɪd| [f. Gr. δρέπαν-ον scythe + -id.] A fish belonging to the Drepanidæ, a family of scombroid acanthopterygian fishes, the typical genus of which is Drepane, so called from its elongated falciform pectoral fins. From same source, ˈdrepaniform a., sickle-shaped, falciform. ‖ ˈDrepanis [mod.L.], a genus of birds; the sickle-billed sunbirds of the South Sea Islands. ‖ dreˈpanium, Bot. [mod.L.], ‘Eichler's term for a sickle-shaped cyme, in which the lateral axes are all in the median plane and spring from the upper side of the curved axis.’ ˈdrepanoid a., ‘scythe or sickle-shaped ’ (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1883). |

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