单词 | sculpturing |
释义 | sculpturingn. 1. The action of sculpture v.; concrete, a sculptured marking. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] entailc1300 sculpture1390 carving1531 engraving1552 statuary1563 engravery1566 insculption1599 scalpture1656 tomice1662 manusculpture1704 tooling1815 sculpturing1842 sculpting1876 mudding1892 machine sculpture1970 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [noun] > sculptured marking sculpture1826 sculpturing1888 1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) iv. 108 The sculpturings seem intended evidently for effect. 1879 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (new ed.) i. ii. 11 Thus land-surfaces everywhere, especially in mountain-regions, are cut away by a process of sculpturing. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 501 The chitinoid cuticle..is more or less marked by hexagonal areæ and by various sculpturings (dots, pits, lines, &c.). 2. Botany. The structural ornamentation of the surface of a pollen grain or spore. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts sandarac1623 globulet1671 powder1672 bread1682 farina1721 pollen1723 father-dust1728 rough wax1744 yellow rain1755 dust1776 fovilla1793 anther dust1797 pollen mass1828 pollen tube1830 intextine1835 pollen grain1835 pollen granule1835 exine1839 exintine1839 intine1839 pollinium1849 sulphur shower1854 pollinic mass1857 pollen chamber1863 smoke1868 pollen sac1872 pollinarium1881 sulphur rain1882 pollinic chamber1885 perine1895 pollen content1926 sculpturing1943 monad1947 nexine1948 sexine1948 1943 G. Erdtman Introd. Pollen Anal. v. 43 The outer surface of the exine may sometimes be provided with some sculpturing or ornamentation. The ornamentations of sculptured pollen grains are exceedingly varied. 1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens ii. 37 The spores are unornamented, although exospore sculpturing is reported in Tholurna. 1970 Watsonia 8 4 The sculpturing of the perispore of D[ryopteris] assimilis differs from that of D. dilatata and D. carthusiana in density and shape and size of projections. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1842 |
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