单词 | suberite |
释义 | † Suberiten.adj. 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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