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单词 Tremella
释义 Tremella Bot.|trɪˈmɛlə|
[mod.L. (Dillenius 1741), dim. from tremulus, -ula shaking, shivering.]
A genus of amorphous hymenomycetous fungi consisting of tremulous gelatinous substance, typical of the N.O. Tremellaceæ or Tremellineæ, most species of which grow on decayed wood, but a few on the ground.
Tremella auricula is known as Earth-jelly, T. albida as Fairy Bullet. T. mesenterica is conspicuous in dead hedges in winter from its orange tint.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. Table i, Tremella, Cryptogamia, Algæ.1778Lightfoot Flora Scot. II. 901 Tremella purpurea... Little red-knobb'd Tremella.1786Thompson in Phil. Trans. LXXVII. 124 Any thing resembling tremella or that kind of green matter, or water moss, which forms upon the bottom and sides of the vessel.
Hence tremellaceous |trɛməˈleɪʃəs| a. Bot., pertaining to the Tremellaceæ or Tremellineæ; treˈmelliform a. Bot., of the form of the thallus in Tremella (Webster, 1911); treˈmellin Chem. [cf. F. trémelline (Littré)], (see quot. 1868); ˈtremelline a. Bot., pertaining to the genus Tremella or N.O. Tremellineæ (Funk's Stand. Dict., 1895); tremeˈllineous a. Bot. = tremellaceous; ˈtremelloid a. Bot., resembling Tremella in form or substance; ˈtremellose a. Bot., shaking, like Tremella, tremulous.
1860Mayne Expos. Lex., *Tremellin.1868Watts Dict. Chem. V. 878 Tr[emella] mesenterica was found by Brandes to contain, in the dry state,..5 pts. of a peculiar crystallisable resinous body, called tremellin.
1860Mayne Expos. Lex., Tremelloides,..applied to a lichen, the membranous, delicate, and almost transparent expansions of which resemble those of the Tremella: *tremelloid.1874Cooke Fungi 72 Anomalous as it may at first sight appear to include these tremelloid forms with the dust-like fungi.1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 333 Calloria luteo-rubella... Somewhat tremelloid.
Ibid. 22 Leotia lubrica... Gregarious, somewhat cæspitose, *tremellose.Ibid. 420 Tremellose, shaking like jelly, of a jelly-like consistence.
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