单词 | madreporarian |
释义 | madreporarianadj.n. Zoology. A. adj. Of, relating to, or designating a true or stony coral (order Scleractinia). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or relating to the Anthozoa > belonging to order Zoantharia > relating to suborder Madreporaria madreporarian1870 scleractinian1900 1870 Nature 14 Apr. 614/2 There was a Madreporarian fauna there. 1881 H. N. Moseley Rep. on Sci. Results of Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger: Zoology II. 1 (heading) Report on certain Hydroid, Alcyonarian, and Madreporarian Corals. 1893 G. Brook (title) Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum. 1936 F. S. Russell & C. M. Yonge Seas (ed. 2) vii. 156 The stony or Madreporarian corals which..are animals of the sea anemone type. 1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) iv. 32/2 The structural skeleton..may be of calcium carbonate secreted by the epidermis as in stony or madreporarian corals. B. n. A madreporarian coral. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > order Zoantharia > suborder Madreporaria > member of pore coral1708 madrepore1738 madreporite1802 madrepore coral1869 madreporarian1870 madreporacean1877 scleractinian1900 madreporian1961 1870 L. Agassiz in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 1 380 The Madreporarians form the most prominent feature in the coral reefs. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 738 In a typical simple, i.e. non-colonial Madreporarian, it [sc. the skeleton] consists of a theca, which..is attached by a base..to some foreign object. 1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 117 (caption) Portion of an arborescent Madreporarian which increases by budding. 1968 T. W. Goodwin in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. ii. ii. 149 Carotenoids have been detected in many families of the Coelenterata including alcyanarians [sic], madreporarians,..and the hydroid gymnoblasts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1870 |
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