dipteronとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

dipteron (plural diptera)

1. (entomology) Any fly of the taxonomic order Diptera.
   • 1895, C. J. Watkins, “The Denizens of an Old Cherry Tree, With Notes of its Surroundings”, in The Journal of Microscopy and Natural Science, volume 14, page 9:

     The next species of Diptera are two female specimens of Trichomyia, bred about the end of May, following which is a dipteron new to the British list, Brachycoma erratica, Mgn., of the family Tachinidæ, kindly identified with the other Diptera of our cherry stump, by Dr. Meade, of Bradford, who has fully described this new species on page 110 in the May number of The Entomologists Monthly Magazine, 1894.

   • 1905, Charles Wardell Stiles, Albert Hassall, The Determination of Generic Types and a List of Roundworm Genera, with Their Original and Type Species:

     A larval dipteron which has been interpreted as a roundworm.

   • 1910 June, E. W. Swanton, “Notes on British Galls”, in Knowledge: A Monthly Record of Science, volume 7, page 209:

     This gall was brought to me ten years ago. From my notes I gather it was probably made by a dipteron, but I failed to rear the flies.

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名詞

dipteron (plural diptera)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of dipteros
   • 1725, Bernard de Montfaucon, John Henley, The Antiquities of Italy, page 114:

     It is also a Pseudodipteron, that is, a false Dipteron; for at first they us'd to build a Dipteron, that is, a double Wing, or Row of Pillars about; but Hermogenes afterwards brought up the Custom of taking away the inner Row of Pillars, so to make the Walking-Place more open, which sort of Wings is call'd Psuedodipteron, because they imitated the Form of the Dipteron.

   • 1958, The Antiquaries Journal - Volumes 38-39, page 176:

     The first dipteron on Samos is dated by Buschor 560-550 B.C. or earlier (see below, pp. 199 f.).

   • 1982, John Boardman, N. G. L. Hammond, The Cambridge Ancient History - Part 3, page 204:

     It seems to have been the original Samian dipteron, laid down perhaps shortly before 560 B.C., that set the pace; and this great building not only excited the rivalry of the Ephesians but set the pattern for architectural forms on Chios also.

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