| 单词 | growth-form |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgrowth-form growth-form n. (see quot. 1960). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > appearance of plant > form of plant or that has parts of particular shape > [noun] heart1597 window plant1838 growth-form1887 parasol1934 petaloid1945 multiflora1972 1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi i. 2 Both [forms] are growth-forms (Wuchsformen) comparable with those growth-forms in the higher plants which are known as the tree, shrub and herb. 1909 E. Warming et al. Oecol. Plants ii. 4 In 1884, Warming, having in view the North-European Spermophyta, gave a general survey of growth-forms which he arranged in fourteen chief groups with many sub-groups, based upon morphological and biological characters. 1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. iii. 92 The ‘life-form’ or ‘growth-form’ of a plant is the form which its vegetative body produces as a result of all the life-processes, including those that are affected by the environment within the plant's life-time and are not heritable. < as lemmas |
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