elytron
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英語
[編輯]詞源
[編輯]古典借詞,源自古希臘語 ἔλυτρον (élutron,「鞘」)。
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[編輯]名詞
[編輯]elytron (複數 elytra)
- (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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- 2020,Aimee 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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