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单词 asclepiad
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Asclepiadn.1

/əskˈliːpɪad/
Etymology: < Latin Asclēpiadēus, < Greek Ἀσκληπιάδειος, adjective < Ἀσκληπιάδης name of a Greek poet.
In Greek and Latin prosody: A verse, invented by Asclepiades, consisting of a spondee, two (or three) choriambi, and an iambus. Also attributive.
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Asclepiad1656
glyconic1821
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Asclepiad, a kinde of Verse consisting of a Spondee, a Choriambique, and two Dactyles.
1876 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. (ed. 4) §265 Of the Asclepiad..Horace employed five systems.
1876 B. H. Kennedy Public School Lat. Gram. (ed. 4) §265 A stanza composed of three lesser Asclepiad verses.

Derivatives

aˌsclepiˈadic adj. Obsolete (also used substantively).
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asclepiadica1586
asclepiadean1706
glyconean1728
glyconic1781
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) ii. sig. V6 Singing these verses called Asclepiadikes.
1650 E. Marbury Comm. Habakkuk (new ed.) (iii. 1) 3 The Greeks and Latines had their severall kinds of verses. Heroick, Iambick, Asclepediake [sic],..and such like.
aˌsclepiˈadical adj. Obsolete
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1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke i. viii. 17 a Meters..hath their name, eyther..of the inuentour as Æsclepiadicall.
aˌsclepiaˈdean adj. Obsolete
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > metre > [adjective] > tetrapodic > types of
asclepiadica1586
asclepiadean1706
glyconean1728
glyconic1781
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Asclepiadean.
1860 L. Schmitz tr. K. G. Zumpt Gram. Lat. Lang. (ed. 5) 306 The second Asclepiadean metre.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

asclepiadn.2

Etymology: < Asclepias n. + -ad suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: aˈsclepiad.
Botany.
A plant belonging to the order Asclepiadaceæ: see Asclepias n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Asclepiadaceae (milk-weed and allies) > [noun]
swallowwort1548
Asclepias1578
silken cicely1597
silkweed1784
tame-poison1785
milkweed1814
green milkweed1829
Hoodia1830
asclepiad1859
poke milkweed1890
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species (1878) xiv. 375 Orchids and asclepiads having pollen-masses with viscid discs.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 208 The pollen of Asclepiads is held together by a secretion of the anther-cell.
1880 F. W. Burbidge Gardens of Sun App. 342 A singular new asclepiadaceous genus.

Derivatives

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aˌsclepiaˈdaceous adj. of or belonging to this order.
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aˌsclepiaˈdeous adj. of the genus Asclepias.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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