单词 | chamberlet |
释义 | chamberletn. Zoology. In a foraminiferan: a minute chamber or subdivision of the test. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a cavity or hollow > very small chamberlet1862 the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > [noun] > suborder Foraminifera > member of > shell > chamber of chamberlet1862 1862 W. B. Carpenter Microscope (ed. 3) x. 500 A ring of small chambers (or chamberlets) is formed around the primordial chamber. 1927 Jrnl. Paleontol. 1 188 The horizontal section shows a spiral..which is divided by strongly curved primary wall into chambers, which are again subdivided into chamberlets. 1957 New Biol. 24 22 The regeneration of a broken chamberlet in the giant Orbitolites. 2004 Micropaleontology 50 399 (caption) Orbitosiphon has lateral chamberlets at both sides. Derivatives ˈchamberletted adj. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > [adjective] > relating to Foraminifera > of shell > having chambers chamberletted1883 1883 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 174 567 A chamberletted disk of one storey, commencing as an orbiculine spire, but subsequently increasing by annular additions. 1972 Jrnl. Paleontol. 46 728/1 The uncoiled and chamberletted stages..may represent adaptation for discoidal attachment in high energy environments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1862 |
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