单词 | sclerobase |
释义 | sclerobasen. Zoology. The axis or stem of a compound actinozoan when forming a horny or calcareous skeleton. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Anthozoa Actinozoa > member of > hard skeletal part > axis forming skeleton sclerobase1861 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 154 Section of a sclerobasis shows it to be, in some cases, solid or nearly so. 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 156 Fig. 28 Θ, epitheca; I, sclerobase. 1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals iii. 161 It is in these Octocoralla that the form of skeleton which is termed a sclerobase..occurs. Derivatives sclerobasic adj. pertaining to or consisting of a sclerobase; also as the epithet of those corals (in modern Latin Sclerobasica) which have a sclerobase. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [adjective] > of or relating to the Anthozoa > of parts or substance of coral > relating to sclerobase sclerobasic1861 1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 153 The ‘sclerobasic’ corallum, a true tegumentary excretion, formed by the conversion of successive growths from the outer surface of the ecderon. 1870 H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. I. xiii. 99 There may be no corallum, or rarely a ‘sclerobasic’ one. 1879 J. Stormonth Man. Sci. Terms at Sclerobasic Forming a solid axis invested by the soft parts of the animal—called the sclerobase. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1861 |
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