单词 | pinnulet |
释义 | pinnuletn. Chiefly Botany. A small pinnule; a subdivision of a pinnule, esp. as a tertiary division of a fern frond (cf. pinnule n. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet lacinia1668 label1672 pinna1703 label1707 pinnula1707 ala1712 lobe1731 pinnule1751 lobe-leaf1758 leafit1761 little leaf1775 wing1776 foliole1785 leaflet1811 lobelet1850 auricle1861 lobule1880 pinnulet1881 pointrel1881 1881 Gardeners' Chron. 16 685 The pinnæ, pinnules, and alternate pinnulets are all stalked. 1903 C. T. Druery Bk. Brit. Ferns 49 The finest percristate form [of Lady Fern] of all, plumose, and with pinnulets crested. 1940 H. A. Hyde & A. E. Wade Welsh Ferns 95 Dryopteris dilatata..pinnules alternate.., pinnulets (and other segments of the third order) ovate to oblong. 1998 Canad. Jrnl. Earth Sci. (Nexis) 35 121 The small ‘pinnulets’ are spines, and reveal that this crinoid had a very unusual posterior. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1881 |
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