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单词 loculicidal
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loculicidaladj.

Brit. /ˌlɒkjᵿlᵻˈsʌɪdl/, U.S. /ˌlɑkjələˈsaɪd(ə)l/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin loculus , -cidal comb. form.
Etymology: < classical Latin loculus (see loculus n.) + -cidal comb. form, after French loculicide ( L.-C. Richard Démonstrations botaniques (1808) 20, the source reviewed in quot. 1812 and translated in quot. 1819). Compare post-classical Latin loculicida (1808; after French loculicide).
Botany.
Of a carpel, fruit, etc.: that dehisces through the back or dorsal suture of the locules, as opposed to splitting along the septa; designating or relating to dehiscence of this type.
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1812 Monthly Rev. 68 544 Dr. Johnson, in his most pedantic mood, never penned such a sentence as the following: ‘The loculicidal and septicidal dehiscences [Fr. les déhiscences loculicide et septicide] have their analogues in the unilocular capsules, of which the trophospermous are parietal.’
1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 85 Loculicidal [Fr. loculicide]; when dehiscence takes place by the middle of the cells.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 33 Dehiscence either loculicidal or septicidal.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 71 Loculicidal crustaceous or coriaceous..carpels.
1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 63 (in figure) Open capsule from above showing 5 loculicidal slits and divided stigmas.
2010 M. G. Simpson Plant Systemetics (ed. 2) vii. 169/2 The fruit is a loculicidal capsule or rarely a berry.

Derivatives

loculiˈcidally adv.
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1835 G. T. Burnett Outl. Bot. II. 1131 The fruit superior, 3-celled, 3-cornered, 3-valved, and dehiscent loculicidally.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 46 Polygala..Capsule compressed, loculicidally splitting along the edges.
2006 D. J. Boland et al. Forest Trees Austral. (ed. 5) 209/1 A more or less woody fruit, which dehisces loculicidally by the splitting of the ovary roof into sectors.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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