| 单词 | yellow monotropa |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow monotropa A genus of saprophytic (mycotrophic) dicotyledonous plants (family Ericaceae) which have brownish-yellow stems, scale leaves lacking chlorophyll, and drooping flowers; (also monotropa) either of the two plants of this genus, M. uniflora (the Indian pipe) and (more fully yellow monotropa) M. hypopitys (the yellow bird's nest).Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) I. 387. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > parasitic plants > [noun] > monotropa genus (Indian pipe) Monotropa1753 wax-plant1801 Indian pipe1822 pinesap1824 tobacco-pipe1845 ghost plant1856 fir-rape1861 Indian pipestem1869 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Monotropa, in botany, the name of a genus of plants, called by Tournefort, orobanchoides, and by Dillenius, hypopitis. 1778 G. White Let. 3 July in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 235 Monotropa hypopithys, yellow monotropa, or birds' nest,—in Selborne-hanger. 1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) x. 61 The Monotropa, or Indian pipe, is of pure white, resembling wax-work. 1905 Longman's Mag. Jan. 257 The uncanny yellow monotropa abounds as of old. 1977 J. L. Harper Population Biol. Plants ii. 42 The flight Reynolds numbers for spores, pollen and tiny dust seeds such as those of Monotropa and many orchids are usually so small that movement in air is dominated by viscous factors. 1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 34 The aerial shoot system of some parasitic plants such as Orobanche, and saprophytes like Monotropa, does not photosynthesize. < as lemmas |
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