单词 | difformed |
释义 | difformedadj. Chiefly (and now only) Botany. Diversely or irregularly shaped. Cf. difform adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [adjective] huelessa1100 shapelessa1400 globose?a1425 deformed1555 fashionless1581 disformed1591 formless1591 unshapeful1598 figureless1606 informous1610 proportionless1625 unbodied1630 unshapable1630 misshapen1640 unshapeless1640 difform1644 inform1654 difformed1665 amorphous1727 amorphic1856 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng Restored 149 Tumuli were..set about..with petty and difformed blocks of broken craggs. 1760 P. Miller Figures Most Beautiful, Useful, & Uncommon Plants II. 154/1 Herbs with an irregular or difformed Flower of One Petal. 1770 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland II. 331 Suberofus. Cork Boletus. White, smooth; pores acute, difformed. 1859 J. Torrey in W. H. Emory Rep. U.S. & Mexican Boundary Surv. II. 225 The species is intermediate between Tradescantia and Commelyna; resembling the latter in the unequal petals and difformed stamens. 1862 E. J. Tilt On Uterine & Ovarian Inflammation (ed. 3) xv. 216 Globules of blood more or less difformed. 1903 F. Clouth Rubber, Gutta-percha & Balata ii. 32 The tree..has distichous difformed leaves. 2001 Bryologist 104 403/2 Areoles rounded to slightly difformed or irregularly incised. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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