单词 | plinian |
释义 | Pliniann.1adj. 1. = duracine n. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > stone fruit > [noun] > cherry > types of black cherry1530 geana1533 Plinian1577 cherrylet1605 agriot1611 morel1611 cœur-cherry1626 bigarreau1629 May-cherry1629 morello1629 duracine1655 black heart1664 duke1664 red-hearta1678 prince royal1686 May duke1718 ox-heart1731 sand cherry1778 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > stone fruit > cherry > types of cherry black cherry1530 geana1533 Plinian1577 mazzard1578 mazardc1595 merry1595 Flanders cherry1597 heart cherry1599 cherrylet1605 agriot1611 morel1611 cœur-cherry1626 bigarreau1629 May-cherry1629 morello1629 urinal cherry1629 white-heart cherry1629 duracine1655 heart1658 black heart1664 carnation1664 duke1664 honey cherrya1671 nonsuch1674 merise1675 red-hearta1678 prince royal1686 lukeward1707 white-heart1707 May duke1718 Royal Ann1724 ox-heart1731 ratafia1777 choke-cherry1785 mountain cherry1811 rum cherry1818 sour cherry1884 Napoleon1886 Napoleon cherry1933 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 95v Plinie in speaking of the sundry sortes [of cherry], preferreth the Duracins, which in Campania they were woonted to call Plinians. 2. A follower of Pliny the Elder. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 127 The most..heretical resolutions of the obstinatest or desperatest Aristotelians, Plinians,..Machiauellists..in the world. B. adj. 1. Belonging to or named after either of the Plinys, esp. the naturalist Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus, a.d. 23–79); resembling the writings of Pliny in style or content. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [adjective] > system of taxonomy > specific system Plinian1646 Jussiaean1824 tautonymic1896 biosystematic1941 Hennigian1970 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. viii. 32 It..is now likely, and deserves indeed to live for ever; not so much for the elegancy of the text, as the excellency of the comment, lately performed by Salmasius, under the name of Plinian exercitations. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Georgics (1684) ii. 79 Salmasius (in his Plinian Exercitations) takes it for a Fable. 1767 W. Harte Amaranth 94 The deceitful root Of the monk's fraudful cowl, and Plinian fruit. 1882 Times 21 Apr. 5/1 He [sc. Darwin] studied marine zoology, and at the close of 1826 read before the Plinian Society of the University two short papers. 1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan xi. 181 It is not known what plant is to be understood by the Plinian text. 1962 D. Harden Phoenicians xi. 154 The Plinian tradition that glass was invented in Phoenicia. 1995 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 11 May 21/3 Peruzzi, too, aimed instead for Plinian atmosphere. 2. Also plinian. Designating a volcanic eruption in which a narrow stream of gas is violently ejected from a central vent to a height of several miles before it expands sideways.Quots. 1884, 1897 refer specifically to the eruption of a.d. 79. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > convulsion > [adjective] > volcanic activity > type or stage of Vulcanian1892 Strombolian1897 Peléan1903 Plinian1903 phreatic1909 1884 H. J. Johnston-Lavis in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 40 37 Some authors have supposed that the principal part of the Vesuvian cone was thrown up by the eruption which destroyed Pompeii... Let us imagine the condition of affairs towards the termination of the Plinian eruption. 1897 I. C. Russell Volcanoes N. Amer. i. 16 Following the Plinian eruption Vesuvius became quiet once more.] 1903 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 4) I. 278 Three phases of its [sc. Vesuvius'] energy are recognised... In the third and most vigorous phase, which has been termed Plinian,..large volumes of steam, dust, ashes, scoriæ, bombs and blocks are expelled with great violence high into the air. 1965 R. Furneaux Krakatoa iii. 37 Its occasional ‘Plinian’ outbursts bring Vesuvius within the same classification as Krakatoa. 1975 G. Fielder & L. Wilson Volcanoes of Earth, Moon & Mars iv. 47/2 The pyroclastic blanket could easily be generated by a lunar plinian eruption. 1993 Jrnl. Petrol. 34 384 During the second period (7900 bp– ad 79), three Plinian eruptions occurred separated by long reposes and several sub-Plinian and minor explosive events. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † Pliniann.2 Mineralogy. Obsolete. A supposed polymorph of arsenopyrite. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > marcasite or related minerals > arsenides mispickel1683 arsenopyrite1854 rammelsbergite1854 geyerite1868 Plinian1868 pararammelsbergite1939 1868 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. (ed. 5) 80 Arsenopyrite, or Mispickel... Plinian. 1896 A. H. Chester Dict. Names Minerals 213 Plinian, a syn. of arsenopyrite, the new name being given because it was supposed to be monoclinic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1adj.1577n.21868 |
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