单词 | acetabuliform |
释义 | acetabuliformadj. Chiefly Botany. Shaped like a saucer or shallow cup, as the calyx or corolla of certain flowers. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > cup or saucer-shaped scutellate1785 acetabuliform1824 cupulate1835 crateriform1866 cupular1870 1824 W. Roxburgh et al. Flora Indica II. 170 C[anthium] augustifolium... Calyx acetabuliform, five-angled, five-toothed. 1842 Geologist 1 44 The [female] animals..being always larger and shorter among the acetabuliform Cephalopods. ?1885 Proc. 7th Ann. Meeting Amer. Soc. Microscopists 1884 114 S[cyphidia] ovata... The body is ovate, attenuate posteriorly and attached by the usual acetabuliform disc. 1940 Jrnl. Parasitol. 26 459 Both of these species have an acetabuliform bursa copulatrix. 1980 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 67 306 Flowers pedicellate;..the calyx obsolete, the cup acetabuliform. 1986 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 73 111/1 Seeds somewhat compressed; boat-shaped (cymbiform) or saucer-shaped (acetabuliform). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1824 |
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