midstripeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

midstripe (plural midstripes)

1. A stripe-like marking that runs down the center of a living thing, such as a flower petal or an insect's body.
   • 1856, J. VAN DER HOEVEN, translated by REV. WILLIAM CLARK, HANDBOOK OF ZOOLOGY, volume 1, page 406:

     the flight is sometimes more than 4" broad, the body is 2" long; upper-wings brown with white at the point and the posterior margin, hind-wings rose red with grey brown margin, and three black transverse stripes; abdomen red above with a brown mid-stripe and black rings.

   • 1949, Charles L. Fluke, “SOME ALASKAN SYRPHID FLIES WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES”, in PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, volume 100, number 3256, Smithsonian Institution, page 50:

     Female.— Very similar to male, the front broad with a semishining midstripe connecting the shiny black antennal prominence with the opaque black of the ocellar area; pile of the black areas black, becoming brown below.