单词 | physophora |
释义 | Physophoran. Zoology. 1. A genus of pelagic siphonophores, characterized by a long hydrosome, a relatively small pneumatophore, and several nectocalyces; an animal of this genus. ΚΠ 1834 H. McMurtrie tr. G. Cuvier Animal Kingdom (abridged ed.) 483 In..Physsophora.., between the superior bladder and the tentacula are other bladders placed side by side. 1868 tr. L. Figuier Ocean World viii. 231 The Physophora now resembles a flower posed upon a tuft of roots. 1896 J. W. Kirkaldy & E. C. Pollard tr. J. E. V. Boas Text Bk. Zool. 108 As examples may be mentioned: Physophora and its allies.., with long hydrosoma, terminating in a small pneumatophore, [etc.]. 1983 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 301 176 Bigelow (1911) explained the apparent anomaly between the situation in Physophora and that in the rhodaliids by suggesting that Physophora..was unlikely to be the direct ancestor of the rhodaliids. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > suborder Physophorae Physophora1869 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > suborder Physophorae > family Physophoridae > genus Physophora Physophora1869 1868 tr. L. Figuier Ocean World 231 The Siphonophoræ form four orders or families [including]..Physophora, consisting of a slender and vertical axis, terminating in an air-bladder, carrying laterally swimming-bladders, which lose themselves amongst a bundle of slender white filaments.] 1869 tr. F. A. Pouchet Universe (1871) 13 At other times it is owing to..the Physophora, trailing their tresses all spangled with stars like those of Berenice in the firmament. 1870 G. Hartwig tr. Sea & its Living Wonders (new ed.) xv The Hydrostatic Acalephæ, or Physophoræ..were formerly supposed to be a special class of animals, but have been proved by Sars and other naturalists to be merely alternating generations of the bell-shaped Acalephæ. DerivativesΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Physophoran, a. of or pertaining to the Physophoræ. n. a member of the order Physophoræ; a physophorous hydrozoan. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > suborder Physophorae > member of physophore1885 1885 J. W. Fewkes in Rep. U.S. Comm. Fisheries 1884 (1886) 974 Turned by these considerations to look elsewhere for the allies of Angelopsis I could only find them among Physophores like Physalia. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 774 In the Physophores Forskalia and Agalma the single ovum is arrested in the endoderm, and surrounded by the spadix. Physoˈphoridae n. [ < scientific Latin Physophoridae (F. Eschscholtz System der Acalephen (1829) 139); not fully naturalized in English] (with plural agreement) a family of siphonophores including the genus Physophora (usually comprising only that genus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Diploblastica > phylum Coelenterata > [noun] > class Hydrozoa > order Siphonophora > suborder Physophorae > family Physophoridae Physophoridae1847 1847 T. H. Huxley Let. 22 June (Electronic text) I sketched out the plan of my next paper, ‘On the Diphydae and their relations with the Physophoridae’. 1878 F. J. Bell & E. R. Lankester tr. C. Gegenbaur Elements Compar. Anat. 97 The greater development of these bladders, which in most Physophoridæ are rather small. 1983 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 301 171 In Physophora hydrostatica, the only representative of the family Physophoridae, the siphosome has hypertrophied to form a bag-like structure around which the cormidia are arranged. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1834 |
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