单词 | muricated |
释义 | muricatedadj. Botany and Zoology. Now rare. = muricate adj. Formerly also, of points or projections: †short, hard, sharp (obsolete). Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > pointed projection horny1530 styliform1578 styliformed1578 pungent1602 lingual1650 muricate1661 muricated1707 linguiform1753 lingulate1763 triglochin1835 lingular1855 cornual1890 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 52 All along there were a great many asperities, muricated prickles, or small eminencies. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 53 The surface of this is..very rough with small muricated hollow tubercles. 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 29 A Muricated, or Thorny Escallop or Spondyle. 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 131 Shell..smooth or muricated. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 580 Carpels with five..minute muricated ridges. 1886 Harper's Mag. July 268 The bulge of the breast is steep..muricated with flint, and thornily crested with good stout furze. 1992 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 52 244 The rhetoric of metaphor and cosmos is perhaps too softly empty to muster attention from steely-eyed philosophers demanding a muricated dance aesthetics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1707 |
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