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单词 physemarian
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physemarianadj.n.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin Physemaria , -an suffix.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Physemaria (plural), division name (Haeckel 1877, in Jenaische Zeitschr. Naturforsch. 11 51; < ancient Greek ϕύσημα bubble (see physem n.) + scientific Latin -aria : see -ary suffix1) + -an suffix. Compare German Physemarien (plural noun; Haeckel 1877, in the same source as the Latin name). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (fəisiə·riăn) /faɪsiːˈmɛərɪən/.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare.
A. adj.
Of or relating to the former division Physemaria of invertebrates in Haeckel's classification, comprising two genera of stalked invertebrates having a round, cuplike body with a calcareous shell, which he considered to be related to, but distinct from, protozoans and poriferans, and which are now classed as foraminiferans.
ΚΠ
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals xii. 678 The spheroidal, free-swimming monad aggregates..are in many respects comparable to Physemarian or Poriferan embryos.
B. n.
An invertebrate of the former division Physemaria.
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1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals xii. 681 That common form, when the special characters..are eliminated..would be exceedingly similar to a Physemarian.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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