单词 | pergameneous |
释义 | pergameneousadj. Biology (now chiefly Botany). = pergamentaceous adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > skin (vellum or parchment) > [adjective] > parchment pergamenous1656 pergameneous1826 pergamentaceous1848 parchmenty1850 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxv. 606 Something between coriaceous and membranous, which I shall express by the term pergameneous. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 708 The consistence of the skin is..somewhat pergameneous. 1942 Brittonia 4 270 The outer seed-coat carnous, the inner pergameneous. 1989 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 76 917/2 In A. guanchezii Bunting, the [leaf] blade is pergameneous or semicoriaceous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1826 |
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