单词 | excurrent |
释义 | excurrentadj. 1. That runs out or forth. Of arterial blood: That flows from the heart. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [adjective] > out or forth profluent1667 effluent1726 effusive1726 excurrent1826 outrunning1894 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxii. 293 The excurrent (or arterial) stream took its course along the inner margin. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xxxix. 92 In the excurrent part of its course. 1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 413/1 at Sponges The insoluble residue..is carried out through the oscule by the excurrent water. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adjective] > going too far > going or gone beyond bounds hoflesc1175 superfluea1425 insolent?a1500 intemperate1508 overgone1581 excurrent1605 exorbitant1621 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. iv. 12 Restraining a matter excurrent, within bondes and limits. 3. Admitting of or affording an exit. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [adjective] > affording exit excurrent1854 1854 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca ii. 277 Fig. 185..showing the relative extent of the liver and ovarium..e, excurrent orifice. 1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 414/2 at Sponges In higher forms of sponges the chambers cease to open abruptly into the excurrent canals. 4. Botany. a. (See quot. 1835.) ΚΠ 1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 362 Excurrent; in which the axis remains always in the centre, all the other parts being regularly disposed round it; as the stem of abies. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §3. 40. b. Projecting beyond the tip or margin, as when the midrib of a leaf is continued beyond the apex. ΚΠ 1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 375 Horned Pond-weed..Stamen 1..connective excurrent. 1882 Gardeners' Chron. 18 70 Excurrent at the apex. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1605 |
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