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flabellum

/fluh-bel-uhm/US // fləˈbɛl əm //UK // (fləˈbɛləm) //

扇贝,扇贝壳,扇子,扇形

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fla·bel·la [fluh-bel-uh]. /fləˈbɛl ə/.

    • : a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
    • : a fan-shaped part.

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Examples

  • The large organ of the flabellum and the branchial organs he has not taken into consideration.

  • A special sense-organ, such as the flabellum of Limulus or the pecten of scorpion, remains and gives rise to the auditory organ.

  • Upon the completion of the victory, four fan-bearers, each with crook and flabellum, offer the spoils of conquest to the king.

  • There is also in the same collection a capital of morse ivory for the handle of a flabellum, North German, twelfth century.

  • A portion of the cylindrical stem of a flabellum or aspergillum, probably French of the twelfth century, is in the British Museum.