单词 | alismal |
释义 | † alismaladj. Botany. Obsolete. Originally (in J. Lindley's terminology): characteristic of or belonging to an alliance of plants including the families Butomaceae, Alismaceae (now Alismataceae), and Juncaginaceae; (also) designating this alliance. In later use: = alismaceous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [adjective] > of or belonging to aquatic plant categories nymphoidal1819 alismal1846 nymphal1846 nelumbiaceous1857 nelumboneous1857 hydral1866 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 207 Arrow-grasses offer the lowest organization in the Order, and may be regarded as an Alismal form of Naiads. 1865 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 5 223 Raphides..scarcely appear, if at all, in the Alismal Alliance. 1874 J. G. MacVicar Sketch Philos. iv. xv. 145 It may be regarded as a distant preluding of a monocotyledonous, say an alismal flower. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1846 |
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