单词 | phaeophycean |
释义 | phaeophyceanadj.n. Botany. A. adj. Of or relating to the class Phaeophyceae, which comprises the brown algae. ΚΠ 1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 192/1 Phaeophycean, relating to the Phaeosporeae, a group of olive or brown marine Algae. 1937 J. E. Tilden Algae & their Life Relations (1968) ii. 20 The brown algae may be said to have had their beginning in the third algal period, the Phaeophycean period. 1966 Science 21 Jan. 359/2 Many phaeophycean genera are known to produce tannins. 1995 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 92 644/2 Chemotaxis in algae has been reported at first in the phaeophycean mating process. B. n. An alga of the class Phaeophyceae; a brown alga. ΚΠ 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 977/3 Phæophycean n., one of the Phæophyceæ or brown seaweeds. 1955 Amer. Naturalist 89 330 The best object to demonstrate the occurrence of relative sexuality in algae proved to be the multicellular Phaeophycean, Ectocarpus siliculosus, from Naples. 1986 Jrnl. Molecular Evol. 24 159/2 This lineage is represented by..two closely related phaeophyceans (brown algae) belonging to the phylum Chrysophyta. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1900 |
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