单词 | clado- |
释义 | clado-comb. form before a vowel clad-, combining form of Greek κλάδος young shoot or branch, in botanical terms, as claˈdanthous adj. [Greek ἄνθος flower] = cladocarpous adj. claˈdenchyma n. [Greek ἔγχυμα infusion] ‘vegetable tissue composed of branched cells’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). cladoˈcarpous adj. [Greek καρπός fruit] bearing the fructification on short lateral branchlets: said of Mosses, which are primarily divided into acrocarpous, pleurocarpous, and cladocarpous. ˈcladophyll n. cladophyllon n. (plural cladophylla) [Greek ϕύλλον leaf] a branch assuming the form and function of foliage. cladopˈtosis n. [Greek πτῶσις a falling] ‘the fall of branches as it occurs in Thuja, Taxodium, and others’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). ΚΠ 1857 M. J. Berkeley Introd. Cryptogamic Bot. 482 The three species..differ from each other in the acro-carpous and clado-carpous growth of the fruit. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §3. 65 Cladophylla commonly pass for leaves: they are well shown by Ruscus. 1883 Athenæum 10 Feb. 188/3 In this tree [aspen] and some few others..a process takes place termed ‘cladoptosis’ by the Rev. W. J. Berkeley many years ago. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1857 |
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