stigmarian.
/stɪɡˈmɛːrɪə/ Geology.
A former genus of fossil plants, whose remains are found abundantly in the coal-measures; they consist of branching bodies, covered with regularly arranged depressions or scars, and are now commonly believed to be the roots of Sigillaria and possibly other trees, the scars being the points of attachment of the rootlets. Also attributive.
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cycadite18..
Bothrodendron1835
lepidodendron1836
calamite1837
sphenophyllum1837
stigmaria1845
polyporite1846
fucoid1848
Muscites1859
lepidodendrid1863
Bennettites1871
lepidodendroid1872
progymnosperm1885
pteridosperm1904
Bennettitales1907
seed fern1907
1845 C. Lyell Trav. N. Amer. I. 84 I was curious to know whether the Stigmariæ would be found here in the under~clays.
1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 274 The fossil plant known as stigmaria was the root of a sigillaria.
1851 G. A. Mantell Petrifactions i. §2. 37 fig. Erect stem of Sigillaria with Stigmaria-roots; in a coal-mine in Nova Scotia.
1885 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 2) vi. ii. iv. §1. 728 There can be little doubt..that Stigmaria was a type of root common to more than one kind of tree.
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stigˈmarian adj. and n. (a) adj. belonging to, or containing remains of, Stigmaria; (b) n. a fossil plant of the genus Stigmaria.
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stigmarian1855
Mesophytic1880
calamitic1883
calamitean1895
Bennettitalean1917
parichnos1969
stigmarioid-
1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 218 This is the under-clay—the stigmarian bed.
1902 Ann. Bot. 16 559 The vascular branches of Stigmarian rootlets.
1920 Brit. Museum Return 137 A plaster cast of the Stigmarian, Dictyophloios minor.
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stigˈmarioid adj. resembling Stigmaria.
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