单词 | nummuline |
释义 | † nummulineadj.n. Zoology, Palaeontology and Geology. Obsolete. A. adj. Of or relating to nummulites; (of a deposit) containing nummulites, nummulitic. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > formations by contents > [adjective] > containing organic remains > containing fossils fossiliferous1829 ammonitiferous1830 nummulitic1830 hippurite1831 indusial1833 fucoid1839 encrinal1845 reptiliferous1845 fucoidal1849 nummuline1861 encrinitic1863 encrinital1876 spiriferous1888 1861 Philos. Trans. 1860 (Royal Soc.) 150 576 The form which I have described..bears a striking resemblance to the ordinary Nummuline type in the early part of its growth, and to the ordinary Operculine in the later. 1865 Intellectual Observer May 291 These tubuli, as in the existing representatives of the Nummuline series, usually run parallel to each other. 1875 J. W. Dawson Life's Dawn on Earth vii. 185 The nummuline-layer..unmistakably occurs in cracks or fissures, both in Canadian and Connemara ophite. B. n. A nummulite. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sarcodina > order Rhizopoda > [noun] > suborder Foraminifera > member of > genus Nummulite nummulite1811 nummuline1875 1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 537 The proto-foraminifer was..one of the most complex in regard to structure, comprehensive in type, as connecting the groups now recognized as the Nummulines and the Rotalines. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 384/2 The same irregularities in the grouping of the tubuli that..we find in recent Nummulines. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.n.1861 |
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