单词 | phytoid |
释义 | phytoidadj.n. Chiefly Biology. Now rare. A. adj. Esp. of an animal: plant-like. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > [adjective] vegetablea1500 vegetive1526 vegetant?1553 plantlike1567 vegetable1582 vegetal1596 plantal1642 vegetative1662 veg1765 vegetably1834 phytoid1853 phytiform1890 1853 J. Leidy Flora & Fauna Living Animals in Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. 5 ii. 40 Though not composed of organic cells, or their transformations, but only of the minutest granules.., yet their character is phytoid. 1871 L. Colange Zell's Pop. Encycl. II. 639/1 These discoveries were afterwards confirmed by Trembley, whose treatise on the structure and animal functions of the phytoid Hydræ and Plumatellæ of fresh water opened a new field of research. 1900 Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria (Electronic text) 12 162 Zoarium phytoid, dichotomously branching. A bud of a plant, as distinguished from a zooid of an invertebrate animal. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1857 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Aug. 679/1 In plants, the homogenetic force produced buds (Phytoids), which were either like their parent branch buds (Isophytoids), or differed from it as bulbs, bulbilli, sporules, etc. (Allophytoids). 1860 Ladies' Repository Oct. 608/2 In such cases the energy of the plant seems to be spent mainly in enlarging its own dimensions, and in the production of buds and phytoids to continue the species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1853 |
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