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pauci-|ˈpɔːsɪ-| comb. form of L. paucus few, little, used in Zool., Bot., and Min. to form adjs., as pauciarˈticulate, -ated, having few joints, in Bot., slightly or loosely jointed; pauciˈdentate, having few teeth, slightly dentated (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1857); pauciˈflorous, having few flowers (ibid.); pauciˈfoliate, having few leaves or folioles; so pauciˈfolious; pauciˈlithionite [lithionite], a hypothetical end-member of the lepidolite system (see quot. 1942); pauciˈlocular, having few loculi; pauciˈnervate, slightly veined, said of a leaf, etc. (Mayne); so pauciˈnervious; pauciˈpinnate, pinnate with few leaflets; pauciˈradiate, -ated, having few rays, as the fin of a fish, or the umbel of a plant (Mayne); pauciˈspiral, having few whorls, as a shell; so pauciˈspirated.
1852Dana Crust. ii. 1312 A *pauci-articulate flagellum.
1857Mayne Expos. Lex., *Pauciarticulated.
1895Cambridge Nat. Hist. III. 433 Holohepatica—Cerata mediodorsal, retractile or not, usually *paucifoliate, liver never ramified.
1942A. N. Winchell in Amer. Mineralogist XXVII. 117 The second end-member [of the lepidolite system] (K2Li3Al5Si6O20F4) has no name and no varietal name in the literature seems to be appropriate. In these circumstances the writer would suggest that it be called *paucilithionite. 1963Mineral. Abstr. XVI. 189/2, 142 Chemical analyses of lithium micas from the literature have been transformed to the molecules polylithionite, paucilithionite, muscovite, and siderophyllite.
1872Peaslee Ovar. Tumors 31 *Paucilocular, in opposition to polycystic.
1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 386/1 Operculum..*paucispiral on the left border. 1851–6Woodward Mollusca 102 The operculum is described as Paucispiral, or few-whirled, as in Litorina. |