| 单词 | sexual method |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexual method sexual method n. Botany (now historical and rare) = sexual system n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > botany > [noun] > classification > specific systems sexual method1738 sexual system1754 Linnaeanism1831 Tae-Bo1994 1738 J. F. Gronovius Let. 22 July in Select. Corr. Linnaeus & other Naturalists (1821) II. 173 We resigned him to Mr. Cliffort, to make a Catalogue of his garden, according to the sexual method, which is now printed, though not yet distributed. 1760 P. Miller Gardener's Kalendar (ed. 12) 376 The sexual method of classing plants, established by doctor Linnæus, is much preferable to all the systems of Botany which have yet appeared. 1839 London Encycl. X. 323/1 at Gramina In Tournefort they constitute part of the fifteenth class, termed apetali; and in Linnæus's sexual method they are mostly contained in the second order of the third class. 1955 J. Cleugh tr. H. Wendt I looked for Adam ii. 44 The system worked excellently in the case of plants... But in the case of animals difficulties arose. The sexual method was inappropriate here. And other methods were inapplicable. < as lemmas |
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