单词 | hexamerous |
释义 | hexamerousadj. a. Botany. Having the parts of the flower-whorl six in number. (Often written 6-merous.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having specific arrangement or number of member parts regular1760 decandrous1808 irregular1826 tetramerous1835 pentamerous1848 symmetrical1849 hexamerous1857 isomerous1857 octamerous1857 anisomerous1861 octomeral1871 hemicyclic1875 zygomorphic1875 zygomorphous1879 tetracyclic1880 heteromerous1882 heterocyclic1895 oligomerous1897 pleiomerous1898 decasepalous- 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 405 Melanthaceæ..Herbs with..regular 6-merous and 6-androus flowers. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §2. 176 In Monocotyledons, so-called hexamerous blossoms are really trimerous, the sixes being double sets of three. b. Zoology. Having the radiating parts or organs six in number, as an actinoid zoophyte. ΚΠ 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 159 The finally hexamerous Anthozoon passes through a tetramerous and an octomerous stage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018). > as lemmashexamerous hexamerous adj. Brit. , U.S. [Greek μέρος part] Biology having members in groups of six, or multiples of six.ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > composed of many parts tripartite1658 undecimarticulate1856 polymerous1857 hexamerous1877 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 159 The finally hexamerous Anthozoon passes through a tetramerous and an octomerous stage. 1905 I. B. Balfour tr. C. E. von Goebel Organogr. Plants II. 538 The first flowers of some Caryophylleae are hexamerous. 1940 L. H. Hyman Invertebrates I. vii. 579 In typical hexamerous anemones, the number of pairs of septa in the various cycles is then: 6 (primaries), 6, 12, 24, 48, etc. < as lemmas |
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