单词 | phytomer |
释义 | phytomern. Botany. Each of the basic morphological units which is repeated to form the structure of a flowering plant; esp. a part of a shoot comprising a leaf, node, axillary bud, and internode, which is the smallest unit capable of vegetative reproduction. Cf. phyton n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > phytomer or plant-unit phyton1846 phytomer1879 metamere1887 metamer1900 1879 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 318 [Reviewer quoting Gray's Struct. Bot. (1880) ch. ix.] The question is not whether it is the cell, the phytomer, the shoot, the tree, or the whole vegetative product of a seed which answers to the animal individual, but only which is most analogous to it. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 7 These ultimate similar plant parts into which a plant may thus be analyzed..were by Gaudichaud called Phytons... A better name for them is Phytomera,..equivalent to plant-parts... In English, the singular may be shortened to Phytomer. 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 41 15/2 This is in accordance with the ‘phytomer’ theory, which considers a morphological unit of the shoot to consist of a stem segment with a leaf at its upper end and on one side and a bud at its lower end and on the other side of the stem. 1998 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 159 339/2 The sheath-enclosed panicle grows along the internode of a phytomer, defined as the leaf and its ‘node of insertion’, the axillary bud, and the internode above. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879 |
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