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单词 patulous
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patulousadj.

Brit. /ˈpatjᵿləs/, U.S. /ˈpætʃələs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin patulus , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin patulus wide-open, gaping, spread out, spreading ( < the stem of patēre to be open (see patent adj.) + -ulus -ulus suffix) + -ous suffix.
1. Chiefly Zoology and Medicine. Open; expanded; gaping.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > wide open or gaping
yawningc893
wideOE
wide open?c1225
gap-wide1582
gaping1594
mouthed1609
patulous1616
wide-opened1635
dehiscent1649
discontinuous1667
patulent1712
hiant1800
yawn-mouthed1861
1616 T. Adams Sacrifice of Thankefulnesse 33 The eare yet heares more, then ever the eye saw: and by reason of the patulous admission, derives that to the vnderstanding, whereof the sight never had a glaunce.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Pharmaceut. Shop i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ooo2 A Pottenger is another..a small, but patulous vessel.
1778 E. M. da Costa Hist. Nat. Testaceorum Brit. 16 On the under side, it is quite patulous, or wide open.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 60/2 By elasticity the proper patulous condition of certain canals and outlets is secured.
1881 Trans. Obstetr. Soc. 21 141 She thought herself about six months' pregnant: the os uteri was low down, patulous, and elongated.
1900 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 193 85 Death from cerebral anæmia is rapidly brought about by the immobilisation in the erect posture of rabbits with patulous abdomens.
1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xxxi. 330 In this case the whole nose is enlarged, bulbous, deep-red or purple in colour, and studded over with patulous openings.
2002 Dermatol. Times (Nexis) 23 50 The weave [of the cleansing cloth] is designed to remove material from patulous pores common on the central face.
2.
a. Botany. Of flowers, leaves, or other parts: spreading out. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > spreading or divergent
spoky1551
patulous1657
spreading1682
patent1753
divaricate1788
pervious1789
straddling1796
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ii3 Of Fennel... It is a kinde of ferulaceous Plant..; its muscary or top, round, patulous [L. patulo], broad, and circulated.
1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 815 The rigid leaved Bell-flowers, with a diffusive panicle and patulous flowers.
1806 J. Galpine Synoptical Compend Brit. Bot. 11 Calyx setaceous, patulous, longer than the spikelets.
1889 Bot. Gaz. 14 94 Lower leaves small, lanceolate-subulate, the upper larger, patulous, very flexuous.
1904 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31 322 These characteristics are the more robust habits.., the pale color, the longer stems with less patulous branches.
1986 Systematic Bot. 11 298 The smaller veins irregularly pinnatiform, their branches forming a patulous reticulum.
b. gen. Esp. of the boughs of a tree: spreading.Describing the boughs of a tree, after Virgil Eclogues 1. 1, ‘Tityre, tu patulae recubans sub tegmine fagi’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > [adjective] > spread out
openc1350
expanded?a1475
spread?c1510
splayeda1547
bredea1550
extended1552
spreaded1567
displayed1578
well-spread1600
outspreada1618
spreaden1620
expansed1628
extent1633
spread-out1644
explicate1661
expatiated1681
patulous1682
expatiate1702
sheeted1797
a-spread1879
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [adjective] > spreading
spreading1560
patulous1682
1682 J. Gibbon Introd. ad Latinam Blasoniam 84 This Cross..is always made patulous at its ends.
1790 By-stander 72 Reclining..under the umbrage of a patulous beech.
1875 R. F. Burton Two Trips Gorilla Land (1876) I. 39 His hands and feet are large and patulous.
1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) I. xv. 227 The boughs of the patulous tree..afford a noble amplitude.
1989 Ambit No. 118. 60 A summer shower was drooping at the time I found him On a remote bench beneath a patulous tree.
2000 Times of India (Nexis) 24 Dec. It is said he found the baby under a patulous basil plant in his garden.
3. Entomology. Of the wings of an insect: partly covering each other when at rest. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 337 Patulous..when wings at rest partly cover each other.

Derivatives

ˈpatulously adv. rare
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adverb] > open
patulously1881
1881 R. B. Watson in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 15 274 Inner lip spreads patulously.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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