ichthyopterygium

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. fish fin. comparative,obsolete
    — As already stated, they are used more like limbs for walking than fins for swimming, but this physiological resemblance to the limbs of the higher animals is not borne out by a morphological one; the fin is an ichthyopterygium, and shows no tendency towards modification in the direction of a cheiropterygium.

词形变化

ichthyopterygia plural

词源

From New Latin ichthyopterygium, from Ancient Greek ἰχθύς (ikhthús, “fish”) + πτερύγιον (pterúgion, “fin”). By surface analysis, ichthyo- + pterygium.
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