单词 | axile |
释义 | axileadj. Belonging to the axis; (Botany) applied to an embryo having the same direction as the axis of the seed, or a placenta in the axis of the ovary. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [adjective] > of parts > relating to embryo or radicle rostellate1800 orthotropous1819 peritropal1819 radicular1819 rostelliform1819 homotropous1829 heterotropous1830 heterotropal1832 axile1839 amphitropous1841 homotropal1844 rostellara1845 amphitropal1847 peritropous1849 polyembryonate1864 polyembryonic1864 proembryonic1875 1839 J. Lindley School Bot. i. 13 If it [sc. the placenta] grows from a centre which is connected with the sides of the ovary by dissepiments..it is axile. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 350 The embryo is said to be axile, or axial when it has the same direction as the axis of the seed. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 314 Oxyria..embryo axile. Compounds axile bodies n. Physiol. the touch corpuscles at the termination of the sensory nerves. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > substance of nervous system > [noun] > sensory corpuscles, etc. axile bodies1859 neuroepithelium1878 spindle1896 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 503/2 Kolliker..prefers to call these bodies, axile corpuscles. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 22. Draft additions October 2011 Of the core of an apple or other pome (when viewed in transverse section): having the seed chambers arranged symmetrically and close to or meeting at the main axis of the fruit; (of seed chambers) having this arrangement. Now rare. ΚΠ 1884 R. Hogg Fruit Man. (ed. 5) p. xiii These carpels or seed-cells vary in shape... In relation to the axis of the fruit, they are either axile or abaxile. When the walls extend to the axis..the cells are symmetrical,..and then they are said to be axile, whether they are open..or closed... When they are distant from the axis, and the cells are unsymmetrical..they are called abaxile. 1920 E. A. Bunyard Handbk. Hardy Fruits 24 The core of a Blenheim is axile and the seeds are long and pointed, while the core of Beauty of Hants is abaxile and the seeds are short and plump. 1951 Econ. Proc. Royal Dublin Soc. 4 50 Core axile, cells closed or slit, core lines clasping. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1839 |
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