hectocotylus
/,hektә'kɔtilәs/
📖 中文释义
- n. [动]交接腕, 化茎腕
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. One of the arms of the male of most kinds of
- cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the
- fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm
- of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the
- spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to
- the female for reproductive purposes.