单词 | nidulant |
释义 | nidulantadj. Botany and Mycology. Now rare or historical. Esp. of seeds or spores: dispersed throughout a pulpy or downy substance; (also) lying free within a cavity. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > suspended or nestling nidulant1783 suspended1832 1783 Syst. Veg. I. xxxvii Nidulant, (nidulantia) seeds spread through the pulp. 1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 447/1 Nidulant, nestling; seeds dispersed through a pulpy or soft substance. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Nidulant,..lying loose in pulp or cotton, within a berry or pericarp. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 789/1 Nidulant,..lying free in a cup-shaped or nest-like body; as in the genus Nidularia. 1890 Bot. Gaz. 15 39 Male plants gemmaceous, nidulant in the tomentum of the female stems. 1957 W. H. Snell & E. A. Dick Gloss. Mycol. 104/2 Nidulant, partially encased or lying free in a cavity. 1988 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 42 178 (note) The 50 botanical words [introduced in Erasmus Darwin's System of Vegetables] are:..nidulant, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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