单词 | palustrine |
释义 | palustrineadj. Chiefly Botany and Ecology. Of or relating to a marsh or fen, marshy; inhabiting marshland; (esp. of a plant) requiring a marshy habitat. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [adjective] > found in or produced by fenny1543 marish1543 fennish1574 marshland1574 marshy1595 marishy1607 fenny-seated1631 palustrian1787 paludous1803 swampy1803 palustrine1824 paludicolous1857 paludose1866 web-footed1867 paludicole1872 palustral1879 paludicoline1890 ombrotrophic1962 1824 W. Buckland & W. D. Conybeare in Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 310 Reeds and other palustrine plants appear to have grown among them. 1886 H. S. Holmes-Pegler Bk. Goat (ed. 3) ii. 7 The goat possesses certain advantages over the sheep as a domestic animal in ‘a barren and dry land where no water is’, but in a palustrine or lacustrine district it possesses none. 1945 A. Dugand in F. Verdoorn et al. Plants & Plant Sci. Lat. Amer. 289/1 The largest of the swamps in southwestern Jamaica is the Great Morass of Westmoreland, rich in aquatic and palustrine plants. 1991 W. Harrington in K. D. Frederick & R. A. Sedjo America's Renewable Resources vi. 209 Wetlands..are predominantly of two types: estuarine wetlands..and palustrine wetlands, mostly freshwater wetlands found in the interior of the continent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1824 |
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