| 单词 | oblong-elliptic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoblong-elliptic C1. [Corresponding to post-classical and scientific Latin oblongo- oblongo- comb. form.] Chiefly Botany. Prefixed to adjectives with the sense ‘oblong and ——’, as oblong-acuminate, oblong-cylindrical, oblong-elliptic, oblong-lanceolate, oblong-oval, oblong-ovate adjs., etc. Cf. oblongo- comb. form. ΚΠ 1677 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 12 827 They [sc. animals seen in the microscope] were..of an oblong oval figure, only with this difference, that me thought their heads ended sharper. 1770 Philos. Trans. 1769 (Royal Soc.) 59 139 (note) Little oblong-oval seed vessels. 1829 J. Lindley Synopsis Brit. Flora 70 S[axifraga]. leptophylla Persoon... Calyx oblong-ovate. 1829 J. Lindley Synopsis Brit. Flora 209 R[umex]. maritimus Linn... Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, flat; upper oblong-lanceolate. 1836 M. J. Berkeley in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. ii. 276 The sporidia oblong-elliptic, containing three or four round sporidiola. 1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 199 Fruit patent, oblong-acuminate. 1847 W. E. Steele Handbk. Field Bot. 203 Barren spikes..oblong-cylindrical. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 353 Spikes oblong-pyramidal. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 282/1 The body [of a pseudoscorpion] is of an oblong-oval form. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea xxiii. 372 Isopoda... Tribe III.—Valvifera... Family 2.—Idoteidæ. The body is ovate or oblong, or more or less oblong-ovate. 1929 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 105 505 The individual chromosomes have so far been oblong-cylindrical in shape. 1976 Flora Europaea IV. 327/2 S[onchus] palustris L...basal leaves oblong-lanceolate, entire to pinnatifid. 1995 European Garden Flora IV. 463/2 M[aranthes] corymbosa... Leaves 6.5–15 × 2–8 cm, oblong-elliptic to lanceolate. < as lemmas |
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