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elytron

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古典借詞,源自古希臘語 ἔλυτρον (élutron)

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elytron (複數 elytra)

  1. (昆蟲學) 鞘翅
    • 1997,Thomas Pynchon,Mason & Dixon:
      In a corner, the Darkling Beetle rustles in its Cage, its Elytra the same unforgiving white as the great sand-waste call’d ‘Kalahari’ lying north of here []
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    • 2020Aimee Nezhukumatathil,World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments,Minneapolis:Milkweed Editions,→ISBN,第 9 頁:
      [] the elytra covering the hind wings of the firefly lift like a light leather, suppler than any other beetle’s.
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