单词 | metallicolous |
释义 | † metallicolousadj.1 Obsolete. rare. That worships or reveres metals. ΚΠ 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ccc4v* Which the Metallicolous Alchymists [L. metallicolæ chymici] say, is produced by their Sulphur. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019). metallicolousadj.2 Ecology. Of a plant: living in or tolerant of an environment containing high levels of heavy metals. ΚΠ 1974 C. Lefèbvre in New Phytologist 73 216 (caption) Phenetic relationships obtained by computer analysis on maritime (ssp. maritima), continental (ssp. elongata, alpine (ssp. alpina) and metallicolous (ssp. halleri s.l.) populations of Armeria maritima. 1978 New Phytologist 81 176 The development of metallicolous vegetation depends on the interaction between numerous factors; pedological and genecological. 1997 Plant Ecol. 133 221 Adding to a background constitutive tolerance at the species level, natural selection has increased heavy metal tolerance in metallicolous populations of Thlaspi caerulescens. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.11657adj.21974 |
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