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单词 mitrate
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mitrateadj.n.

Brit. /ˈmʌɪtreɪt/, U.S. /ˈmaɪˌtreɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mitratus.
Etymology: < scientific Latin mitratus shaped like a mitre (1764 in zoology) < classical Latin mitra mitra n. + -ātus -ate suffix2. Compare classical Latin mitrātus wearing a mitra, in post-classical Latin also wearing a (bishop's) mitre (from 12th cent.). In senses A. 2 and B. after scientific Latin Mitrata, order name (O. Jaekel 1921, in Paläontologische Zeitschr. 3 120).
A. adj.
1. Botany and Zoology. Having the shape of a mitre or bonnet; (spec. of the calyptra of a moss) conical, symmetrical, and having two or more slits. Cf. mitriform adj.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > other shapes
plummet-like1605
semilunar1681
cordated1698
cordate1760
obcordate1775
club-shaped1776
flabelliform1777
obovate1785
button-shaped1791
clavate1803
placentiform?a1808
obovoid1819
valviform1819
constricted1826
vulviform1829
mitrate1836
bipenniform1842
sandaliform1848
scopiform1852
obclavate1856
obcordiform1857
oboval1857
utriform1860
broadsword-shaped1870
placentoid1885
hypsiloid1886
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 1014 Mitrula. So called from its mitrate form.
1848 E. Forbes Naked-eyed Medusæ 22 The umbrella is sub-cylindrical and mitrate.
1887 W. Phillips Man. Brit. Discomycetes 1 Receptacle..mitrate.
1900 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27 465 The suborder Mitrati was formed to include the genera with mitrate or clavate apothecia.
1946 Amer. Midland Naturalist 36 314 Calyptra mitrate and plicate.
1993 Bryologist 96 234/2 Cladopodanthus is identified by its frequently awned or cucullate leucobryaceous leaves, erect capsules, and mitrate nonfringed calyptrae.
2. Palaeontology. Of, relating to, or designating a fossil echinoderm of the order Mitrata (see sense B.).
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1952 Bull. Amer. Paleontol. 34 5 A new pattern of mitrate carpoid organization.
1963 Jrnl. Paleontol. 37 648 The mitrate Carpoidea to which the described genus belongs have so far only been known from the Ordovician.
1973 R. P. S. Jefferies in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 265 207 The parts derived from the mitrate head can be distinguished from those derived from the mitrate tail.
1975 Bull. Amer. Paleontol. 67 386 Its association with mitrate remains..affords evidence to support the conjectured origin of macheridians as appendages of the mitrate animal.
2000 Nature 19 Oct. 851/1 There are three interpretations of mitrate orientation.
B. n.
Palaeontology. Any member of the order Mitrata of fossil invertebrates of the Palaeozoic era, having a mitre- or leaf-shaped theca formed of calcite plates, generally regarded as atypical primitive echinoderms but sometimes interpreted as primitive chordates (calcichordates).
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the world > life > biology > organism > fossil > [noun] > types of
astroite1610
belemnite1646
mussel-stone1660
scallop-stone1668
trochite1676
conchite1677
ophiomorphite1677
pectinite1677
worm-stone1677
musculite1681
serpent-stone1681
sugar-plum1681
glossopetraa1684
ague shell1708
forket1708
mytilite1727
grit1748
phytolithus1761
fairy beads1767
fairy fingers1780
fairy arrow1794
gryphite1794
ram's horn1797
hysterolite1799
tubulite1799
thunder-pick1801
celleporite1808
ceraunite1814
seraph1822
serpulite1828
coprolite1829
subfossil1831
pencil1843
trigonellite1845
buccinite1852
rudist1855
guide fossil1867
witch's cradle1867
coccolith1868
fairy cheeses1869
discolith1871
Portland screw1871
spiniferite1872
cyatholith1875
cryptozoon1883
sabellite1889
palaeospecies1895
homoeomorph1898
rudistid1900
megafossil1932
scolecodont1933
macrofossil1937
hystrichosphere1955
palynomorph1961
acritarch1963
molecular fossil1965
mitrate1967
1967 R. P. S. Jefferies in Symposia Zool. Soc. London 20 164 The descent of chordates in general from cornutes and mitrates.
1980 R. Haude in M. Jangoux Echinoderms 25/1 A new mitrate from strata at the Lower/Middle Devonian boundary in Germany.
1989 Paleobiology 15 442/1 That most contentious of echinoderm groups, the stylophorans (the mitrates and cornutes also discussed by Jefferies and Holland).
2000 Nature 19 Oct. 851/1 The mitrates, living on the sea bed or just under it, seem to have been buried by a mudflow.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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