单词 | periphyll |
释义 | † periphylln. Botany. Obsolete. 1. A gland situated near the margin of a leaf. rare. ΚΠ 1848 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 307 In many plants, however, glands are evidently provided for such a purpose [sc. secretion]. They have been examined by M. Trinchinetti, who describes them to be small bodies... He names them periphylls because they chiefly occur near the periphery, or circumference of a leaf. 2. = lodicule n. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [noun] huskc1400 hosea1450 pannicle1672 surfoil1672 squama1738 palea1753 spatha1753 pelt1759 pelta1760 spath1763 bract1771 scale1776 spathe1785 scalelet1787 glume1789 ramentum1793 rament1813 paleola1829 bracteole1830 bractlet1835 glumelle1836 palea1836 pale1847 periphyll1858 bracket1860 glumella1861 glumellule1861 lodicule1864 bract-sheath1870 palet1871 palea1875 pale1890 prophyllum1890 hypsophyll1895 pale1900 prophyll1902 1839 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) i. ii. 149 Within the last-mentioned bracts, and opposite to them, are situated two extremely minute, colourless fleshy scales..: these are named..lodicula by Palisot de Beauvois, and periphyllia by Link.] 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 913/2 Periphyllum, name given by Link to the scales which surround the ovary of the Gramineæ: a periphyl. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1848 |
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