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soleno-|səʊˈliːnəʊ| combining form of Gr. σωλήν channel, pipe, etc., as soˈlenocyte, one of the cells found in the nephridia of certain polychætan worms; soˈlenodon(t, one or other of certain insectivorous mammalian rodents native to the West Indies and America, as the agouta, S. paradoxus, or the almiqui, S. cubanus; soleˈnogyne, solenoˈstelic a., Bot. (see quots.); solenoˈstomatous a., of, belonging to, or resembling the genus Solenostomus of lophobranchiate fishes. Various other examples, as solenoconch, solenoglyph, solenopharynx, solenostome, etc., are recorded in some recent Dicts.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 882 The blind branches are beset with peculiar cells, the *solenocytes.
1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 80 The *Solenodon..resembles a gigantic Shrew, but with coarse fur. 1871Cassell's Nat. Hist. I. 362 The existence of a Solenodon in some of the mountainous parts of the island of Cuba. 1896Sclater in Geog. Jrnl. VII. 288 The affinities of which..seem on the whole to approach the Solenodonts.
1866Treas. Bot. 1071/2 *Solenogyne, a little Australian perennial herb of the Compositæ, now united with Lagenophora under the name L. Solenogyne. In aspect it is very like our own daisy.
1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 243/1 *Solenostelic,..having a tubular stele with internal and external phloëm (Jéffrey).
1855J. Phillips Man. Geol. 60 According to the ordinary..notion of their food, gasteropodous mollusca with shells may be ranked thus:—Holostomatous phytophaga,..*Solenostomatous zoophaga. |