| 单词 | organic molecule |
| 释义 | > as lemmasorganic molecule organic molecule n. [compare French molécule organique (1749 in Buffon)] (a) (in the terminology of Buffon) any of the minute indivisible particles of which living things are constituted and by means of which they reproduce (now historical); †(b) (in the terminology of L. Spallanzani) a spermatozoon (obsolete rare); (c) a molecule of an organic compound (see sense A. 7a).Sense (b) is apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > supposed reproductive particles organic molecule1815 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 30 They acted by the ancient organized states in the shape of their old organization, and not by the organic moleculæ of a disbanded people. View more context for this quotation] 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris App. p. xxi His theory of the Earth, now forgotten, and his organic molecules, on which he attempted to raise a system of materialism. 1835 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. 175/1 Organic molecules, a term applied by Spallanzani to certain floating bodies supposed to exist in the male semen, and which he regarded as primordial monads of peculiar activity. 1857 Proc. Royal Soc. 1856–7 8 489 The compound ammonias, in which 1 equivalent of hydrogen is replaced by an organic molecule. 1929 Sci. Monthly Dec. 536/1 His chief opponents in this field were Buffon with his ‘organic molecules’. 1998 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 43 1411/1 Heterotrophic bacteria are effective processors of dissolved organic molecules. < as lemmas |
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