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单词 pseudonavicula
释义

pseudonaviculan.

Inflections: Plural pseudonaviculae.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: pseudo- comb. form, Latin navicula.
Etymology: < pseudo- comb. form + post-classical Latin navicula a type of diatom (1867 or earlier: see quot. 1867 at pseudonavicella n.), specific use of classical Latin nāvicula small boat (see navicula n.), the diatom being so called on account of its resemblance to a small boat. Compare slightly earlier pseudonavicella n.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare.
= pseudonavicella n.
ΚΠ
1870 Nature 2 528 Mr. Lankester then mentioned the gregarinæ of these worms, and the discovery of their pseudonaviculæ having long stiff processes, so that they run into the worms like pins, and in this way penetrate into previously uninfested worms.
1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 324 Aimée Schneider has discovered in the pseudonaviculæ of Monocystis lumbrici and other gregarines falciform corpuscles resembling those figured by Gaule.

Derivatives

pseudonavicular adj. Obsolete rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
ΚΠ
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudonavicular, same as pseudonavicellar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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