单词 | alveolate |
释义 | alveolateadj. Chiefly Botany. Honeycombed; pitted with little cavities. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] > full of cavities > small cellulate?a1425 cavernous1597 alveated1623 honeycombed1633 favaginous1658 cellulated1693 vesiculated1703 cellulous1712 cellulara1728 cellulose1752 cavernulous1758 comby1773 alveolate1793 vesiculate1828 cavernulated1875 cellularized1942 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. (at cited word) Alveolate (alveolātum s. favosum) Receptacle. Divided into open cells, like a honeycomb, with a seed lodged in each: as in Onopordum. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 508 Corallum profoundly alveolate. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 266 Digitalis purpurea..seeds alveolate. 1916 H. M. Gilkey Revision Tuberales Calif. 310 By far the greater number of Californian species that have been collected have alveolate spores. 1963 Brittonia 15 90 Receptacle naked or alveolate. 2011 S. Afr. Jrnl. Bot. 77 49/2 Receptacle rounded, shallowly alveolate, alveoles uniformly ±0.2 mm high, entire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1793 |
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