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单词 meconidium
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meconidiumn.

Inflections: Plural meconidia.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μήκων , -idium comb. form.
Etymology: < ancient Greek μήκων poppy (see meconium n.) + -idium comb. form. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mīkoni·diɒ̆m) /miːkəʊˈnɪdɪəm/.
Zoology. Obsolete.
A type of gonophore found in certain hydroid coelenterates, said to resemble a poppy capsule.
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1849 G. J. Allman in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 137 The extra-capsular medusiform sporosacs (‘meconidia’) of Laomedea.
1871 G. J. Allman Monogr. Gymnoblastic Hydroids Introd. p. xvi Meconidium, peculiar sporosacs, somewhat resembling a poppy capsule in form.
1884 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) I. 85 The cavity of the blastostyle is directly continuous with a central cavity in this meconidium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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