单词 | pateriform |
释义 | pateriformadj. Botany and Entomology. Now rare. Having the shape of a shallow bowl. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > shape > [adjective] > platter-shaped scutellated1728 pateriform1826 scutelliform1826 scutellate1849 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 325 Pateriform,..when the joints are somewhat dilated and very short, shaped somewhat like a shallow bowl. 1890 Amer. Naturalist 24 154 Calyx pateriform, not covering the flattened base of the fruit. 1948 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 35 52 Fruit subglobose, 6 mm. long, mucronulate, with the rudiment of the style, the subtending cupule pateriform, smooth at the base. 2007 Harvard Papers Bot. 12 166/2 Calyx pateriform, 7–10 mm diam., obliquely transversal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1826 |
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