单词 | gamo- |
释义 | gamo-comb. form 1. Botany. Forming adjectives designating organs in which the parts specified by the second element are fused together, and plants having such organs. ΚΠ 1840 B. Kingdon tr. A. P. de Candolle Veg. Organogr. II. 73 It is usual in this case to say..that the plant is monogynous and polystylous, or with one ovary and several styles; whilst, perhaps, it would be better to say that it is Gamogastrous, or has its ovaries united. 1876 J. H. Balfour in Encycl. Brit. IV. 142/1 The union..may take place by the ovaries alone, while the styles and stigmata remain free, the pistil being then gamogastrous. gamopetalous adj. Brit. , U.S. [after French gamopétale ( A. P. de Candolle Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) 363); compare also scientific Latin gamopetalus (1813 in the same work)] (of a flower) having the petals fused, or partially fused, together; (also) having flowers of this type; cf. sympetalous adj. at sym- prefix .ΚΠ 1819 Brit. Rev. 14 45 Mr. De Candolle..distinguishes them [sc. monopetalous flowers] by the new name of gamopetalous flowers. 1879 Hardwicke’s Sci. Gossip 15 178/2 I have been particularly struck with the much greater proportion of blue flowers among gametopetalous plants than among polypetalous. 1906 J. E. Taylor Flowers (ed. 4) x. 205 The reason why gametopetalous flowers appear later in geological time than polypetalous is because they were transformed from the latter condition. 2005 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 92 1192/2 The last gamopetalous genus, the Australian Muellerolimon is related to Goniolimon. gamophyllous adj. Brit. , U.S. [after French gamophylle ( A. P. de Candolle Théorie élémentaire de la botanique (1813) 477); compare also scientific Latin gamophyllus (1813 in the same work)] (of an involucre,perianth, etc.) having fused leaf-like parts, esp. bracts or sepals; (also) = gamopetalous adj. (rare).ΚΠ 1837 D. C. Macreight Man. Brit. Bot. 128 Involucre generally in 1 row, or gamophyllous. 1870 W. H. D. Adams Everyday Objects iii. ii. 228 The polypetalous corolla, as well as the gamophyllous corolla, may be regular or irregular. 1945 W. O. Howarth & L. G. G. Warne Lowson's Textbk. Bot. (ed. 9) ix. 238 The terms polyphyllous and gamophyllous are used to indicate the free and coherent condition, respectively, of the perianth leaves. 1999 Flora Neotropica 76 75/2 These two species share the characteristic of a gamophyllous involucel. gamosepalous adj. Brit. , U.S. , ΚΠ 1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants I. 125 It is very rare that a calyx which is not gamosepalous is persistent. 1866 Rep. Proc. Internat. Hort. Exhib. 128 This coloration of the calyx under natural circumstances is more common among polysepalous plants than it is in gamosepalous plants. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants xviii. 236 When the individual lobes of a gamosepalous calyx are of the same size it is said to be regular. 2003 Systematics & Geogr. Plants 73 177 The calyx is gamosepalous and white or greenish-white. Its margin in truncate to deeply lobed. 2. Forming terms relating to marriage or to sexual reproduction. gamomania n. Brit. , U.S. rare obsession with marriage (see also quot. 1885).ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational loves and desires crack1601 plutomania1652 hippomania1780 hydromania1803 zoomania1807 craze1813 musicomania1833 musomania1833 nostomania1835 gamomania1841 dipsomania1843 mesmero-mania1843 theomania1853 opsomania1857 potomania1858 opiomania1868 polemomania1874 xenomania1879 oenomania1897 Pygmalionism1905 urolagnia1906 claustrophilia1926 Undinism1928 leprophilia1953 leprophilia1963 thanatophilia1974 1841 Brit. Mag. & Monthly Reg. June 611 The slights which Elizabeth never failed to put upon the wives of clergymen..may have done something to abate this gamomania: poverty did more. 1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Gamomania, a form of insanity characterised by strange and extravagant proposals for marriage. 1900 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 46 539 Alexander the Great, we are told, was afflicted with moral insanity and ‘gamomania’, which he showed by making ten thousand of his soldiers marry Persian women. 1997 L. Jaivin Eat Me (1998) 209 None of us girls have been afflicted by gamomania or biological clock watching. Not yet, anyway. ΚΠ 1866 W. T. Brande & G. W. Cox Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art (new ed.) II. 10/1 Gamomorphism, that stage of developement of organised beings in which the spermatic and germinal elements are formed, matured, and generated, in preparation for another act of fecundation, as the commencement of a new genetic cycle. gamophyte n. Brit. , U.S. Botany (now disused) = gametophyte n.In quot. 1861 used specifically with reference to more primitive forms of non-flowering plants.ΚΠ 1861 G. Ogilvie Genetic Cycle Org. Nature App. 261 Gamophyte. 1889 R. J. H. Gibson Textbk. Elem. Biol. 132 The term gamophyte will be employed throughout in preference to oophyte, as taking into account both the male and the female sexual organs. 1892 Chambers's Encycl. IX. (new ed.) 300/1 The nutrition may be stored within the embryo which results from the fertilisation of the egg-cell of the gamophyte. 1900 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 88 In certain cells of the gamophyte of Marchantia polymorpha.., Prof. D. M. Mottier finds undoubted centrosomes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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