elytron
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古典借詞，源自古希臘語 ἔλυτρον (élutron, “鞘”)。
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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，頁號 9:
- […] the elytra covering the hind wings of the firefly lift like a light leather, suppler than any other beetle’s.
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