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单词 anthemy
释义

anthemyn.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anthémie; Latin anthemia.
Etymology: < (i) French anthémie (1857 in a paper by A. Guillard (the source cited in quot. 1879), or earlier), or its etymon (ii) scientific Latin anthemia (plural) flower clusters, inflorescences (1837 or earlier; apparently reinterpreted as a singular; probably < Hellenistic Greek ἀνθέμιον flower: see anthemion n.), with remodelling of the ending after -y suffix3. N.E.D. (1885) gives the pronunciation as (æ·nþĭmi) /ˈænθɪmɪ/.
Botany. Obsolete. rare.
= inflorescence n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > arrangement of flowers on plant or inflorescence
inflorescence1760
anthemy1879
1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. v. 144 (note) The..flower-clusters, for which, if a general technical name is needed, that of Anthemia, in English Anthemy, suggested by Guillaud [sic], is as good as any.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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