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polytelic, a.
Brit. |ˌpɒlɪˈtɛlɪk|, U.S. |ˌpɑliˈtɛlɪk|
[‹ poly- comb. form + ancient Greek τέλος end, completion (see telos n.) + -ic suffix (compare telic adj.). In sense 3 after German monotel (in W. Troll Infloreszenzen (1964) I. 149). With senses 2 and 3 compare monotelic adj.]
1. Sociol. Of a system, group, behaviour, etc.: comprising or connecting several diverse aims or interests. rare.
1930G. L. Coyle Social Progress in Organized Groups viii. 216 Many forms of polytelic agreement showing a willingness to agree at certain points and disagree at others are often entirely satisfactory. 1991R. K. Wagner in R. J. Sternberg & P. A. Frensch Complex Probl. Solving vi. 199 MORO, which simulates the situation of a small nomad tribe in the southern Sahara..is a polytelic, intransparent system with highly interconnected and dynamic variables, which partly show time-delayed effects.
2. Zool. Designating or relating to an animal which breeds more than once in its lifetime; iteroparous. Cf. monotelic adj. 1.
1962V. C. Wynne-Edwards Animal Dispersion xxiii. 574 Their adaptations are immediately derived by contraction from the ordinary polytelic type of cycle characteristic of the majority of mammals. 1978Marine Biol. 46 89/1 Nephthys humbergii and Nephthys caeca have a polytelic pattern of reproduction in which gametocytes are released annually for several years. 1979Nature 25 Jan. 332/3 Division of annelid species into monotelic and polytelic groups (that is, those which breed only once and those which breed more than once) provides an interesting touchstone. 1995Scientia Marina 59 39 Naineris laevigata Grube..is a long lived polytelic species reproducing once a year in late spring.
3. Bot. Of an inflorescence (esp. a synflorescence): having axes that are indeterminate (i.e., that do not terminate in a flower). Cf. monotelic adj. 2.
1965Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 59 218 In the polytelic type of inflorescence..there is no terminal flower at the summit of the primary axis. 1976Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 63 274/2 The entire family Scrophulariaceae has the polytelic inflorescence. 1995Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 156160/2 A synflorescence is an inflorescence that consists of a system of florescences. A polytelic synflorescence is an indeterminate inflorescence consisting of main and coflorescences often arranged in paracladia. |