“xiphosuran”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

xiphosuran

释义

xiphosuran, a. and n. Zool.|zɪfəʊˈsjʊərən|
[f. mod.L. Xiphosūra pl. (irreg. f. Gr. ξίϕος sword + οὐρά tail, instead of the correct form Xiphūra) + -an.]
a. adj. Belonging to the order Xiphosura of Arachnida, including the king-crab (Limulus) with a long sharp telson, and the extinct genus Belinurus.
b. n. An arachnid of this order. So ˈxiphosure (= b); xiphoˈsurous, xiˈphurous adjs. (= a).
1837Penny Cycl. IX. 460/1 Latreille..admitted into the class Crustacea 12 orders, viz., the Decapods,..the Xyphosures [sic], and the Siphonostomes.1879H. A. Nicholson Palæont. (ed. 2) I. xviii. 385 In the Devonian no certain traces of Xiphosurans have yet been detected, but several types occur in the Carboniferous.1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 528 A Xiphosuran is found in the upper Silurian.

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