“aculeate”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

aculeate

释义

aculeate, a.|əˈkjuːlɪət|
[ad. L. acūleāt-us furnished with a sting or prickle, f. acūleus, dim. of acu-s needle; see -ate².]
1. Zool. Furnished with a sting.
1661Lovell Anim. & Min. 200 Flounder..They have a soft flesh, yet the Aculeate are hard.1875Houghton Sk. Brit. Insects 130 The aculeate Hymenoptera are those insects furnished with a sting.1880Athenæum No. 2748, 827 Sir J. Lubbock regards the ancestral ant as having been aculeate.
2. Bot. Prickly, set with prickles.
1870Hooker Stud. Flora 199 Bidens..Fruit compressed, ribbed, ribs often aculeate.
3. fig. Pointed, incisive, stinging. [So in L.]
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. (1640) 29 The labour here is altogether, that words may be aculeate, sentences concise.1693Beverley Gospel Truth 1 Any Aculeate Animadversions on..particular Expressions.1880R. L. Poole Huguen. of Disp. 186 Political action, hardened and aculeate by hatred.

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