单词 | polypod |
释义 | polypodn.1 Originally: common polypody (polypody n.1). Now more generally: any fern of the genus Polypodium or the family Polypodiaceae. Also polypod fern. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > polypodies everferneOE polypodya1398 polypoda1500 polypody of the oaka1500 polypodium1525 wall fern1526 brake of the wall1561 polypody of the wall1597 oak fern1844 rabbit's foot fern1886 a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 711/37 Polipodicum, a pollypod. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xiii. 217 Heere findes he on an Oake Rheume-purging Polipode. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 27 Nor may we here omit to mention the Galls, Missletoe, Polypod, Agaric..Fungus's..and many other useful Excrescencies [of the oak]. 1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. ii. 35 Oaken Coals, beaten and mix'd with Honey, cure the Carbuncle; to say nothing of the Viscus's, Polypods, and other Excrescencies, of which innumerable Remedies are composed. 1799 tr. B. Faujas-de-St.-Fond Trav. in Eng., Scotl., & Hebrides I. 82 The polypodes, ferns, and different plants which require coolness and the shade, are placed in appropriate situations. 1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvi. 143 The bright green polypods and maiden's hair waved in silent feathery harmony. 1900 Bot. Gaz. 29 430 The fronds of the polypod were fine fruiting specimens from three to twelve inches high. 1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 62 Resurrection fern, a polypod, grows on trees, dries up in unfavorable weather, unrolls and grows after it rains. 1992 M. Schaffer-Fehre tr. S. Schaal & W. Ziegler Messel iv. 29/3 (caption) Pinna of Rumohra recentior, a polypod fern. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). polypodadj.n.2 A. adj. 1. a. Zoology. Of an animal: having many feet; spec. of or belonging to any of various former invertebrate taxonomic groups named Polypoda and characterized as having many feet (or organs resembling feet). Now rare.The name Polypoda (now disused) was given variously to (i) arthropods with more than eight legs (myriapods); (ii) annelids with many legs (polychaetes); (iii) cephalopod molluscs with more than eight tentacles, including the nautiloids; (iv) a class erected to contain the onychophoran Peripatus, when first described as a supposed relative of molluscs. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Myriapoda > [adjective] polypod1707 myriapod1821 myriapodal1878 myriapodan1887 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > of feet > having feet > having many feet multipedous1654 polypod1707 multiped1736 polyped1822 polypodous1858 1707 Philos. Trans. 1706–7 (Royal Soc.) 25 2316 I doubt not but when the Animal is alive, the under part below the Cirrhi doth resemble the under part of the Mollusci of the Polypode kind. 1766 tr. C. Bonnet Contempl. Nature I. 182 Polypode zoophytes [Fr. Zoophytes polypodes], or plant-animals with many feet. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 344 Polypod... Having more than eight legs but under fifty. 1890 Cent. Dict. Polypod, having many legs, feet, arms, or rays. (a) In Crustacea, more than decapod; having more than ten and fewer than fifty legs... (b) In Mollusca, more than octopod; decapod or decacerous... (c) In Annelida, having indefinitely many foot-stumps or parapodia. 1909 Science 5 Mar. 385/2 I assume that the pedes spurii do not arise directly by transformation from the appendages of polypod ancestors. 1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum lii. 311 And polypod animals which can move in all directions. b. Entomology. Designating or relating to a form of insect larva characterized by a segmented abdomen bearing rudimentary or functional appendages (prolegs); (also) designating or relating to a phase of development characterized by such a form. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [adjective] > of young > of larva > having segmented abdomen and appendages polypod1894 1894 Amer. Naturalist 28 226 In the Chilopods the embryo escapes from the egg with numerous ambulatory appendages, a pair to each somite. The same is true of the typical Hexapods, all later observers agreeing that a polypod precedes a hexapod condition. 1925 A. D. Imms Gen. Textbk. Entomol. 179 In the polypod phase the abdomen has acquired its complete segmentation and full number of appendages. 1942 J. Needham Biochem. & Morphogenesis ii. 464 Holometabolous insects hatch..either in the protopod stage.., or in the polypod state (e.g. the caterpillars of Lepidoptera), or in the oligopod state.., or finally in a degenerate oligopod state which is apodous (e.g. the larvae of Diptera). 1998 R. F. Chapman Insects (ed. 4) xv. 369/2 A second basic form is the polypod larva... The larvae of Lepidoptera, Mecoptera and Tenthredinidae are of the polypod type. 2. Archaeology. Of a bowl or other vessel: having several (usually more than four) feet. ΚΠ 1930 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 60 59 Generally speaking, Breton pottery of this period is clearly inferior to Iberian and Baltic, no high-footed dishes and no polypod vases have been described. 1983 C. Scarre Anc. France vii. 209 In the Late Chalcolithic appears the polypod bowl, a characteristic of this period—though more especially of the Bronze Age—in the Pyrenees. 1997 Amer. Anthropologist 99 856/2 The third phase, the Guadual (about a.d. 100 to 500), represents a radical break in the ceramic tradition. Tri- and polypod feet were replaced by pedestal supports. B. n.2 1. Zoology. An animal having many feet (or organs resembling feet); spec. †(a) a woodlouse, a millipede (obsolete); †(b) any of various cephalopod molluscs (obsolete). Also in extended use.No longer in scientific use. Cf. multiped n.The plural form polypodes, when used of cephalopods, is taken to represent a plural (on the Greek pattern) of polypus (see polypus n. 2a). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > paw or foot > animal with many feet multiped1601 polypod1753 polyped1822 1753 B. Martin Philos. Gram. (ed. 4) 343 Insects which change not their form, have some 6, some 8, some 14, others 24 Feet, and some many more, which are therefore call'd Polypodes, or Multipeds. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Polypode, an animal having many feet; the milleped or wood-louse. 1860 F. C. L. Wraxall Life in Sea i. 11 The cachalot lives principally on cuttle-fish and polypods. 1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley III. xix. 274 Like a polypod awash, or a basking turtle. 1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel v. 38 Polypods and squids and deep sea folk. 1970 Times 27 Feb. 8/7 Its own unwieldy size and diversity makes it impossible even for this polypod to control its own general direction of movement. 1994 Classical Philol. 89 250 For him [sc. Aristotle] all animals possessed of feet, whether bipeds, quadrupeds, or polypods, must have an even number of feet. 2. Archaeology. A vessel with several (usually more than four) feet. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > other vessels mitOE utensil1502 dinger1533 ding1595 baikie1629 caddinet1662 Betty1725 conch1839 oxybaphon1850 ampoule1947 polypod1951 1951 G. H. S. Bushnell Archaeol. Santa Elena Peninsula v. 40 Polypods..are shallow bowls supported by a number of solid pointed feet..which generally bear applied decorations in the form of a crude human face, wearing a nose ring. 1966 B. J. Meggers Ecuador v. 81 Hollow and solid polypods occur, as well as tall and low annular bases. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1a1500adj.n.21707 |
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