单词 | milioline |
释义 | miliolineadj.n. Zoology. A. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the foraminiferan genus Miliola or the suborder Miliolina to which it belongs; designating a form of shell characteristic of many miliolids, having only two elongated chambers in each whorl; (of limestone) composed of the shells of miliolids. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > [adjective] > relating to Foraminifera > relating to or consisting of miliolae milioline1873 milioliform1890 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man 243 The milioline limestone of the Eocene, so called from its immense abundance of microscopic shells of the genus Miliolina. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 376/2 Milioline shells..often show some kind of ‘sculpture’. 1945 M. F. Glaessner Princ. Micropalaeontol. iv. 72 The third group shows a regularly or irregularly coiled septate or non-septate young stage followed by various types of spiral arrangement including the milioline type. 1978 L. Hottinger in R. H. Hedley & C. G. Adams in Foraminifera 3 213 This form [was] originally a miliolid (as indicated by milioline coiling of the first, microspheric, chambers). 1998 Micropaleontology 44 195 In the early stage, chambers have a coiled milioline structure. B. n. A milioline foraminiferan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > [noun] > suborder Foraminifera > member of > member of family Miliolida milioline1879 miliolid1896 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 376/2 In the typical Miliolines it [sc. the structure] is more or less obscured by the extension of the later chambers over the earlier. 1990 Micropaleontology 36 88/1 Sixteen of these samples..contain numerous miliolines with chambers arranged in seven planes of coiling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1873 |
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