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单词 planticle
释义

planticlen.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: plant n.1, -i- connective, -cle suffix.
Etymology: < plant n.1 + -i- connective + -cle suffix. Compare animalcle , variant of animalcule n., and see further the etymological discussion at -cule suffix. N.E.D.(1907) takes the word to be an erroneous misreading of plantule , which appears in E. Darwin's Bot. Garden in a passage corresponding to quot. 1800 (see quot. 1791 at plantule n.). Although this may perhaps be a printer's error, quot. 1720 appears to provide independent evidence of the form.
Obsolete. rare.
An embryonic or rudimentary plant; a plantule.
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1720 Christian Conversat. iv. 63 The Sun Beams..cause the Extension and growth of the Plant, in such form and fashion as the little mould or planticle contained in the Seed directs, or limits them to.
1800 E. Darwin Phytologia i. vii. 94 After fecundation a body begins to appear..which in process of time proves to be two lobes containing a planticle... The ripe seed consists of two lobes adhering to a planticle.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Planticle, a young plant, or plant in embryo. Darwin.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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