单词 | monostachyous |
释义 | monostachyousadj. Botany. Now rare. Originally (of a plant or stem): bearing a single flower spike. Later (of a clubmoss): having unbranched aerial stems. ΚΠ 1775 J. Jenkinson Linnæus' Generic & Specific Descr. Brit. Plants 254 Monostachyous [wrongly explained as ‘consisting of but one range or order’]. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. M3v Monostachyos caulis, a stem bearing a single spike.] 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Monostachyus, applied to plants of which the flowers are disposed in but one spike..: monostachyous. 1896 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 23 93 The plant may indeed have been a several-spiked form of Carex squarrosa, long supposed to be a monostachyous species, as the ‘Table’ [sc. the Analytical Table of Schweinitz, 1824] has it. 1906 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33 114 Stems short, prostrate, with simple monostachyous branches. Iuliforme [sc. Lycopodium iuliforme] Group. 1992 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 79 710/1 Other similarly adapted ecotypes of this species [sc. Lycopodium clavatum], characterized by compact, less compound, monostachyous, and often epedunculate habit,..have been recognized as species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1775 |
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