单词 | pseudostome |
释义 | pseudostomen. Zoology. 1. Originally: the mouth or oral opening in an echinopluteus larva of a sea urchin. Now usually: the principal opening in the shell (test) of a testate amoeba, through which the pseudopodia extend. ΚΠ 1863 W. Thomson in Nat. Hist. Rev. 3 409 The central part..in Brachiolaria bears the pseudostome and swimming appendages. 1865 W. Thomson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 155 517 The same prefix may distinguish the organs of the temporary zooid, where such exist, pseudostome, pseudocele, pseudoproct, &c. 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 631/2 The pseud-embryo or echinopædium..becomes..wedge-shaped; at its broad end appears the mouth or pseudostome, and at the other the anus or pseudoproct. 1966 Systematic Zool. 15 231/2 Family of tubulate ameboid organisms which have cylindroid pseudopods with clear tips..; pseudostome terminal or ventral, round or lobate. 1999 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 26 90/2 Shell morphology is affected by temperature, food supply and trophic level, including the length and breadth of the test and the pseudostome diameter. ΚΠ 1887 W. J. Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 416/1 The opening..to the exterior being termed a false oscule or pseudostome. The faulty use of the term oscule..is here obvious; for in one sense the oscule is always a pseudostome. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudostome... A pouched rat, or pocket-gopher, of North America, as Geomys bursarius. DerivativesΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudostomous, having pseudostomes, as a sponge; of or pertaining to pseudostomes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1863 |
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