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单词 suberite
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Suberiten.adj.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Suberites.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Suberites, genus name (G. D. Nardo 1833, in Isis von Oken iv. 523) < classical Latin sūber suber n. + -ītes -ite suffix1.
Zoology. Obsolete.
A. n.
Any sponge of the genus Suberites (family Suberitidae), having minute siliceous spicules and found chiefly in temperate waters.
ΚΠ
1874 H. J. Carter in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 14 249 The mounted specimen of Suberites arciger..presents the true pin-like skeleton-spicule of a Suberite.
1888 W. J. Sollas in Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. XXV. 415 The most valuable characters are the presence of tylostyles and their radial position in the cortex; by these marks it is recognised at once as a Suberite.
B. adj.
Designating a sponge of the genus Suberites (see sense A.); characteristic of such a sponge.
ΚΠ
1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. Pl. 71 Trichostemma hemisphericum—a Suberite Monaxonid.
1889 Wesley Naturalist Oct. 196 It was incrusted with a Suberite Sponge having pin-like spicules.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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