| 单词 |
pulmonate |
| 释义 |
pulmonate, a. (n.) Zool.|ˈpʌlmənət|
[ad. mod.L. pulmōnāt-us, f. pulmo, -mōn-em lung: see -ate2 2. In F. pulmoné.]
A. adj. Having lungs, as the higher vertebrates, or lung-like respiratory organs, as the orders Pulmonata of gastropod molluscs and Pulmonaria of arachnids.
B. n. A pulmonate mollusc (or, less usually, arachnid).
1842Brande Dict. Sci. etc., Pulmonates, Pulmonata, the name of an order of Gastropodous Mollusks, including those which breathe air. 1862Dana Man. Geol. iii. 363 As late as the Carboniferous period there were only reptiles, insects, and pulmonate mollusks. 1883E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 663/2 There is one genus of slug-like Pulmonates which frequent the sea-coast.
So (in same sense) ˈpulmonated a.
1841T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. 410 In the Snail and the generality of pulmonated Gasteropoda. a1854E. Forbes Lit. Papers i. (1855) 22 The absence of pulmonated vertebrata from the older formations should be expected. |
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单词 pulmoni- 释义 pulmoni-|plmn|the full combining form of L. pulmo, pulmn-em lung, as in......