单词 | zooxanthella |
释义 | zooxanthellan. Biology. Any of various typically yellow-brown photosynthetic dinoflagellates (formerly grouped in the genus Zooxanthella) which frequently live as symbionts within the cells of certain marine invertebrates, esp. reef-building corals. Chiefly in plural.Zooxanthellae are now placed in the genera Symbiodinium and Amphidinium (Phylum Dinoflagellata). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > other micro-organisms > [noun] aerobian1865 anaerobian1865 microzyme1870 mycetes1874 pathogen1880 zooxanthella1882 aerobe1883 anaerobe1883 zymad1885 pathogerm1897 phytoflagellate1902 filter-passer1906 aerophile1907 zymocytea1909 fermenter1918 phytopathogen1918 phytomonad1926 pleuropneumonia-like organism1935 phototroph1941 mycoplasma1955 prokaryote1963 mycoplasm1964 serovar1973 spiroplasma1973 prokaryon1975 ureaplasma1975 1882 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 2 794 The yellow bodies (or zooxanthellæ of Brandt) which are found in the cells of the endoderm are probably..foreign algæ. 1896 Sci. Trans. Royal Dublin Soc. 6 418 Zooxanthellae..are most numerous in the tentacles. 1927 I. E. Wallin Symbionticism & Origin Species vi. 71 Zooxanthellae in the free-living state are often provided with two flagella at one end of the body. 1958 J. E. Morton Molluscs ii. 39 In Elysia and Tridachia , the flattened margin of the body is coloured by special zooxanthellae which multiply there. 1991 R. S. K. Barnes & K. H. Mann Fund. Aquatic Ecol. (ed. 2) x. 204/2 Symbiotic dinoflagellates are often referred to as zooxanthellae, a term of convenience that is used for all brown or yellow-brown symbiotic algae and has little taxonomic significance. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 June 7/1 The polyps that build the Reef eject the zooxanthellae (algae that provide them with nutrition) from their tissues in response to heat stress. Derivatives zooxanˈthellate adj. and n. (a) n.a coral that possesses symbiotic zooxanthellae; (b) adj.designating corals that possess symbiotic zooxanthellae; of or relating to zooxanthellae (cf. hermatypic adj.). ΚΠ 1981 B. R. Rosen in P. L. Forey Evolving Biosphere ix. 106/2 It will be more convenient and precise from here onwards to refer to the two groups [of scleractinian corals] as zooxanthellates and non-zooxanthellates respectively. 1981 B. R. Rosen in P. L. Forey Evolving Biosphere ix. 107/2 An important feature of the separation of zooxanthellate distribution into two realms is that there is a great disparity in their diversity. 1986 Palaios 1 391 (caption) How water clarity influences zonation of zooxanthellate corals. 2008 H. Reyes-Bonilla et al. in G. D. Danemann & E. Ezcurra Bahía de los Ángeles x. 314 There are 13 species of scleractinian corals recorded in the study region (two zooxanthellates and 11 azooxanthellates). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1882 |
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