单词 | spermatize |
释义 | spermatizev.ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [verb (intransitive)] > sperm spermatize1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Spermatiser, to spermatize; to shed, eiect, or iniect sperme. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 149 Affirming that women do not spermatize,..he deductively includes both sexes in mankinde. View more context for this quotation 1725 H. Bourne Antiquitates Vulgares xxvii In ancient Times the Dragons..did frequently..Spermatize in the Wells and Fountains. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. xxvii. 281 I have nothing to observe here concerning Mr. Bourne's lustful Dragons, their spermatizing in the Wells,..&c.! 2. [Back-formation < spermatization n. at Derivatives] transitive. Mycology. To effect spermatization upon. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > cover with lichens [verb (transitive)] > develop apothecia on lichen spermatize1932 1932 Mycologia 24 347 Apothecia are produced only when the isolate from the crocus is used as a source of microconidia to spermatize any of the other six. Derivatives spermatiˈzation n. (see quot. 1932). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > development of apothecia spermatization1932 1932 F. L. Drayton in Mycologia 24 346 The development of apothecia by Sclerotium Gladioli..has been induced by means of placing the microconidia of one thallus on certain structures which develop on another thallus. This process may be called ‘spermatization’, and it will be so designated throughout this paper. 1945 F. L. Drayton in Mycologia 37 635 He attempted to intercross these four races by the spermatization method. 1970 Cytologia XXXV. 427 The mechanism of spermatization in this fungus..is of a type not so far reported. ˈspermatizing adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [adjective] > developing apothecia spermatizing1967 1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens iii. 42 The spermatizing element may be any hypha that can contact the ascogonium. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1611 |
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