elytron

الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية

تعريف elytron في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.

A sheath or outer covering, especially around the spinal cord or over the hindwings of certain insects

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.

{i} leathery fore wings of beetles and some other insects, meeting in a straight line and serving as protective covers for the hind wings when at rest (Biology)

One of the shieldlike dorsal scales of certain annelids

One of the anterior pair of wings in the Coleoptera and some other insects, when they are thick and serve only as a protection for the posterior pair

الواصلة

e·ly·tron

علم أصول الكلمات

() From Ancient Greek ἔλυτρον (elutros, “sheath”).