单词 | malpighiaceous |
释义 | malpighiaceousadj. Botany. 1. Designating a T-shaped unicellular hair, characteristic of plants of the family Malpighiaceae. Cf. Malpighian adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Malpighiaceae family or member > [adjective] malpighiaceous1832 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 40 Malpighiaceous and glandular hairs. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIV. 341/1 In many species [of Malpighiaceæ] the hairs are attached to the leaves, &c. by the middle; so that hairs of that description have acquired the name of Malpighiaceous. 1923 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 10 485 These [characters] are malpighiaceous hairs (appressed hairs, 2-branched with branches forming a straight line, the hairs therefore apparently attached at their middle), appendaged connectives in the anthers, [etc.]. 1996 Systematic Bot. 21 578/2 On the other hand, Sapotaceae have..malpighiaceous hairs (present in all genera except Delpydora which has simple hairs). 2. Belonging to the family Malpighiaceae, comprising dicotyledonous trees and shrubs found chiefly in tropical America, of which the type genus is Malpighia. ΚΠ 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit., & Art 122/1 Banisterieæ, that division of Malpighiaceous plants in which the fruit is samaroid, not baccate. 1943 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 30 94 Comparison of the Wedel specimens with all the Malpighiaceous plants in the Missouri Botanical Garden herbarium showed no match. 1975 Bot. Mus. Leaflet (Harvard Univ.) xxiv. vi. 121 (title) Notes on poisonous or medicinal malpighiaceous species of the Amazon. 1997 Jrnl. Nat. Hist. 31 1307 It has remarkably pale forewings, and lives in the flowers of a malpighiaceous shrub in Brazilian cerrado. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1832 |
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