单词 | cryptogamic |
释义 | cryptogamicadj.n. Botany. A. adj. 1. Belonging to the former division Cryptogamia (cf. Cryptogamia n.); of or relating to cryptogams. Cf. cryptogamous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [adjective] sexless1757 cryptogamous1781 cryptogamic1785 cryptogamical?1791 asexual1795 aetheogamous1830 amphigamous1841 acrogenic1844 apogamous1878 apogamic1886 1785 Crit. Rev. Nov. 332 Among other works, of the first note and highest authority, we find the celebrated Flora Rossica of Mr. Pallas, Schœffer's Plates, Scopoli's Flora.., and Weis's Cryptogamic Plants of Gottingen. 1826 Gardener's Mag. 1 162 These works will comprehend the whole extent of the British Flora, including the lowest tribes of cryptogamic vegetation. 1876 Biogr. Encycl. Ohio 19th Cent. 666/1 He began studying cryptogamic botany, or rather the muscological part. 1901 R. G. Leavitt Outl. Bot. xvi. 168 The great majority of cryptogamic forms are too small to attract attention, and many are even too minute to be seen by the naked eye. 1938 G. M. Smith (title) Cryptogamic botany. 1989 New Scientist 11 Feb. 49/1 Cryptogamic plants have had more success: there are around 400 species of mosses and liverworts and more than 300 species of lichens. 2007 P. Thomas & J. R. Packham Ecol. of Woodlands vi. 263 Cryptogamic (or microbiotic) soil crusts are delicate symbioses of cyanobacteria, lichens and mosses. 2. Ecology and Soil Science. Designating (a soil having) a surface crust composed of soil particles bound together by organic material and containing a community of cyanobacteria, lichens, and mosses.Cryptogamic crusts are characteristic of undisturbed soils in arid and semi-arid environments. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [adjective] > other types of soil redeOE Armeniac?a1425 rosiny1613 Chiltern1669 light land1770 acid1806 residuary1829 mottled1845 sedentary1870 residual1876 azonal1896 Bulli1904 immature1921 mature1924 intrazonal1927 podzolic1927 pedalferic1928 pedocalic1928 solonetzic1935 planosolic1949 solodic1968 cryptogamic1973 cryptobiotic1992 1973 Jrnl. Range Managem. 26 443/1 Part of the reduction in infiltration rates on the windrowed treatments at the Blanding site can be attributed to destruction of cryptogamic soil crusts as a result of mechanical disturbance associated with chaining activities. 1992 Explore June–July 33/1 Although it's easy to dismiss this stuff as ‘just black dirt,’ cryptogamic soil literally keeps the desert's unique vegetation alive. 2004 High Country News 19 Jan. 6/1 These humble crusts, sometimes known as cryptogamic or cryptobiotic crusts, efficiently ‘fix’ nitrogen. B. n. A plant or fungus of the former division Cryptogamia; a cryptogam. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [noun] cryptogam1799 cryptogamic1805 cryptophyte1838 aetheogam1839 amphigam1845 pteridoid1866 1805 Edinb. Rev. 6 134 Among these last [plants] we notice several cryptogamics. 1854 J. H. Balfour in Encycl. Brit. V. 146/1 Lichens..belong to the Thallogenous division of Cryptogamics. 1868 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 252/1 We keep aquariums, study the domestic habits of limpets, and understand the private life of cryptogamics. 1914 J. H. Gardiner Harvard iv. 272 All the collections belonging to the University of cryptogamics below ferns are now kept in the Cryptogamic Herbarium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1785 |
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