单词 | ruptile |
释义 | † ruptileadj. Chiefly Botany. Obsolete. Breakable; spec. (of a plant part) breaking into irregular pieces. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [adjective] > dehiscent ruptile1721 septicidal1812 septifragal1819 sutural1819 circumscissile1835 dehiscing1839 dehiscent1845 porous1861 circumsciss1870 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Ruptile, easy to be broken. 1722 J. Quincy Lexicon Physico-medicum (ed. 2) 386/2 Ruptile, is used by Fallopius for any thing easy to be broke; and he assigns the Cause of Ruptibility, as he calls it, to a Multitude of Pores wanting due Moisture in them. 1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangem. Brit. Plants I. 508 Sporidia deliquescent; thecæ with a mouth or ruptile, fixed. 1836 J. Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. (ed. 2) 93 Bombaceæ a calyx with a ruptile dehiscence. 1838 Mag. Nat. Hist. 2 211 Calyx valvate in the bud, or ruptile, or irregular. 1876 F. H. Hooker & J. D. Hooker tr. E. Le Maout & J. Decaisne Gen. Syst. Bot. (new ed.) 430 Fruit sometimes a berry from the development of the receptacular cupule, indehiscent or ruptile (Astronia). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1721 |
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