单词 | antholysis |
释义 | antholysisn. Botany. Now rare and chiefly historical. Abnormality of a flower characterized by unusual division or separation of its organs, or transformation of the normal organs into parts resembling other organs, esp. leaves (= phyllody n. 1). Also: an instance or type of this (rare). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [noun] > plant metamorphosis or anamorphosis anamorphosis1830 antholysis1842 chlorosis1850 metamorphy1869 phyllody1869 phyllomorphy1869 1842 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 9 343 Instance of Antholysis in the flowers of Trifolium repens; by T. Schmitz. 1855 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 70 193 In monstrous flowers (in cases of antholysis and chlorysis), sometimes without any other malformation, bractlets otherwise imperceptible appear in an abnormal growth. 1906 Torreya 6 33 Antholysis and Phyllody in Digitalis purpurea.—A garden fox-glove had the campanulate corolla divided almost to the base into three or four irregular segments. 1921 Ecology 2 13 The other [departure from normality in Phytolacca] included a wide variety of antholyses. Separate pistils, conjoined and open pistils, gynophores.., phyllody of the stamens and replacement of ovules by shoots, etc. 2000 Bot. Rev. 66 247 Virescence of flowers (frondescence, phyllody, phyllomania, chloranthy, antholysis) means the more or less pronounced occurrence of foliar characters within the floral whorls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1842 |
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