单词 | monothalamous |
释义 | monothalamousadj. 1. Entomology. Of a plant gall: having only one chamber. rare. ΚΠ 1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 454 The majority of galls are what entomologists have denominated monothalamous, or consisting of only one chamber or cell. 1864 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 3 576 Gall growing out of the leaf, the shape and structure of the leaf still plainly perceptible, monothalamous, but several of them often confluent. 1918 Bot. Gaz. 65 539 Under the monothalamous galls were included those types which..are generally one-chambered, that is, the gall never is a structure constantly characterized by the confluence of the walls of two or more chambers. 1986 Entomography 4 55 These characteristics include..degree of aggregation, ranging from monothalamous determinate galls to indeterminate polythalamous galls. 2. Zoology. Of an animal or protist: having a shell, test, or skeleton with a single chamber. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [adjective] > of parts of > of shell monothalamous1834 right-handed1838 monothalamic1845 palatal1854 oliviform1857 the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > [adjective] > relating to Foraminifera > of shell > having chambers > having one chamber monothalamous1834 monothalamic1845 1834 P. M. Roget Animal & Veg. Physiol. I. 265 Some,..as the Argonaut, or Paper Nautilus, have shells undivided by partitions; and are accordingly termed unilocular or monothalamous. 1880–1 W. Saville-Kent Man. Infusoria I. 328 Some Monothalamous Foraminifer such as Lagena or Miliola. 1933 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 19 893 In the monothalamous Testacea..paired tests are the result of reproduction by budding. 1957 Micropaleontology 3 76 The various monothalamous genera of foraminifera are able to take up detritus from different levels. 1991 Marine Ecol. Progress Ser. 70 245 Ostracods were found particularly sensitive to cadmium exposure, while Turbellaria and monothalamous Foraminifera sometimes increased in cadmium-dosed microcosms. ΚΠ 1882 E. Tuckerman Synopsis N. Amer. Lichens I. 214 P[ertusaria] flavicunda,Tuckerm..; apothecia small to almost middling-sized,..monothalamous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1816 |
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