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1. n. pl. Zool. (Usu. with capital initial.) [neut. pl. of L. radiātus, pa. pple. of radiāre to furnish with rays: cf. next.] One of the great divisions of the animal kingdom according to the system of Cuvier (afterwards modified and now discarded), consisting of animals with radial structure, as sea urchins, sea anemones and polyps.
1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 393 Division iv.—Radiata. 1842H. Miller O.R. Sandst. xiv. (ed. 2) 295 The radiata cover the bank by thousands. 1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. I. iv. i. (1872) 396 In such so-called Radiata as the Star-fish. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 767 A vast..division of living beings, which have no joints whatever, and are called Radiata.
2. Bot. [a. the specific epithet of Pinus radiata (D. Don 1837, in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 442).] In full, radiata pine: = insignis, Monterey pine s.v. Monterey.
1953N.Z. Jrnl. Forestry V. 374 The development of major industries, dependent wholly or substantially on radiata pine as a basic raw material, is well advanced. 1959A. McLintock Descr. Atlas N.Z. p. xiii, Plantation and shelter belts of introduced (exotic) trees, mainly radiata pine and macrocarpa, break up the farmlands. 1963Times 11 Feb. 9/1 At Kaingaroa..273,000 acres of radiata pines were planted during the depression. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 24 May 5/4 It was found, however, that the radiata pine (Monterey pine) would flourish in this otherwise ‘dead’ [volcanic] soil. 1973T. E. Simpson Kauri to Radiata vii. 310 By 1959 radiata would have achieved prominence in sawn output over that of our indigenous timbers. |