patagium

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
  2. A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
  3. One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.

词形变化

patagia plural

词源

Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from an unattested Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon), perhaps from πάταγος (pátagos, “clatter”).
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