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单词 agyrate
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agyrateadj.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: a- prefix6, gyrate adj.
Etymology: < a- prefix6 + gyrate adj., after scientific Latin Filices agyratae, a name given to a group of ferns characterized by their lack of an annulus (J. J. Bernhardi 1801, in Journal für die Botanik 2 125). N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (ădʒəiə·reit) /əˈdʒaɪəreɪt/.
Botany. Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
Of a fern: lacking an annulus (annulus n. 3a).
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 25/2 Agyrate, a name given to osmundaceous plants by Swartz, in consequence of their having no true elastic annulus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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