单词 | polyzoic |
释义 | polyzoicadj. 1. Chiefly Zoology. a. Consisting of many individual organisms or parts of a similar nature; spec. (of a tapeworm) composed of a number of proglottids. Also (rare): polyzoan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [adjective] polyzoic1855 tentaculibranchiatec1904 1855 Eng. Cycl., Nat. Hist. III. 858/2 The Polyzoic type [of Mollusca] itself presents five subordinate modifications in the five principal orders of the group. 1880–1 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria I. 338 The zoarium of the polyzoic genera Aulopora or Hippothoa. 1903 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality I. 34 I regard each man as at once profoundly unitary and almost infinitely composite.., polyzoic and perhaps polypsychic in an extreme degree. 1941 Amer. Naturalist 75 43 Ligula, a polyzoic cestode with metamerically disposed sex organs, lacks transverse partitions essential for proglottid formation. 1983 Parasitology 86 iv. 121 The perplexing phenomenon of proglottid formation in polyzoic tapeworms. b. Of, relating to, or designating a parasitic sporozoan whose oocysts produce a large number of sporozoites. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > spore formalc1400 sporular1819 zoosporous1845 zoosporic1854 polysporous1858 polyspored1882 sporulating1897 sporulated1898 polyzoic1901 zygosporic1906 polyspore1959 propagular1967 1901 G. N. Calkins Protozoa 153 The archispores..form a definite number of sporozoites, varying from one (monozoic) or two (dizoic) to many (polyzoic). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > [adjective] > belief in imaginary living things polyzoic1886 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [adjective] > specific types or forms of lowa1387 primitive1838 pre-revolution1860 metronymic1868 pre-feudal1870 prelogical1880 polyzoic1886 pre-agricultural1898 pre-civil1902 pre-feudalic1907 subcultural1909 protocultural1920 pre-independencea1922 apparented1934 sensate1937 patrimonial1946 non-literate1948 inner-directed1950 underground1953 pop-cultural1963 technopolitan1965 1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 367/2 Perhaps the best name for this first stage of religious development might be the ‘polyzoic’ stage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1855 |
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