单词 | secundine |
释义 | secundinen. 1. a. Obstetrics. The placenta and other adjuncts of a fœtus extruded from the womb after the expulsion of the fœtus in parturition; the afterbirth. Frequently plural. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > membranes, etc., of embryo or fetus > [noun] > placenta secundine1398 afterburden?a1450 second birtha1513 afterbirth1527 second1562 glean1601 bed1611 placenta1638 sooterkina1658 womb-cake1657 womb-liver1657 womb-pancake1663 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. xlix. (Tollemache MS.) It is seyde þat it [Dittany]..bryngeþ oute secundine, þe bagge þat þe childe is inne in þe moder. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxiv. 88 She taketh the lytell skynne that remayneth of the secondyne within the forhed of the lytell foole. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxiv. 89 The secondying. 1526 Grete Herball xxviii. sig. Bvv/1 Other saye that it [amber] is the secondyne yt she [a whale] cauteth whan she hath spawned. ?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe (1585) Q j [It] causeth the delyuerance of the child and of the secondynes, and after burden. 1610 G. Markham Maister-peece i. lxxxvii. 171 She cannot auoyd her secundine, which is the skinne wherein the foale is wrapped. 1754–64 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 240 All the Secundines ought to be extracted at once. 1855 F. H. Ramsbotham Princ. & Pract. Obstetr. Med. (new Amer. ed.) 68 And, with the membranes and the cord, the secundines. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 95 Not..till we have once more cast our secondine, that is, this slough of flesh, and are delivered into the last world. View more context for this quotation 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw vi. 55 Every Sulphur Embroinatum..is but an impurity of its Embrio, and as it were..the secundine thereof. 1656 A. Cowley Muse in Pindaric Odes iii Through the firm shell..[thou] do'st spie, Years to come a forming lie, Close in their sacred Secondine asleep, Till hatcht by the Suns vital heat. 1828 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 740 This, however, is not the Child, I asked you to wait for; but contrary to all good midwifery the mere Secundine—an after-birth—and now I must bring out the true Birth head & shoulders. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Bombycidae > genus Bombyx > silk moth > caterpillar of bombyx mori or silkworm > inner coat of cocoon secundine1599 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 64 Lest..moisture..cause both strings and secundine to rotte. 3. Botany. The second of two coats or integuments of an ovule, originally the inner one, later applied to the outer covering: see primine n.So modern Latin secundina (Malpighi 1671, from whom quot. 1683 is a translation). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > ovule > inner or second integument secundine1672 sarcoderm1848 primine1875 1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. vii. 177 The fourth and innermost Cover we may call the Secondine; the sight whereof, by cutting off the Coats of an Infant-Bean, at the Cone.., may be obtain'd. 1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse App. i. i. 10 The first day after it [a grain of wheat] is sown, it grows a little turgid, and the secundine or husk gapes a little. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 155 The outermost but one of the sacs is called the secondine; it immediately reposes upon the primine. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 501 When there are two or three integuments, the innermost (the Primine of Mirbil [sic]) is always formed first, then the outer one (the Secundine), and finally..the Aril [Ger. Sind zwei oder drei Integumente vorhanden, so entsteht immer das innerste zuerst, dann das äussere, und endlich..der Arillus]. 1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. iv. 178 The integuments of the seed answer morphologically to the primine and secundine of the ovule. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1398 |
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