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单词 phytozoon
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phytozoonn.

Brit. /ˌfʌɪtə(ʊ)ˈzuːɒn/, /ˌfʌɪtə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɒn/, U.S. /ˌfaɪtəˈzoʊˌɑn/
Inflections: Plural phytozoa.
Forms: 1800s phytozoons (plural), 1800s phytozoum, 1800s– phytozoon.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: phyto- comb. form, -zoon comb. form.
Etymology: < phyto- comb. form + -zoon comb. form, after post-classical Latin Phytozoa (1786 or earlier; compare scientific Latin Phytozoa , division name (1828 or earlier)). Compare Italian fitozoo (1834), and French phytozoaire (1828). With sense 2 compare German Phytozoon . Compare earlier zoophyte n.
1. Zoology. A zoophyte; an individual polyp of a zoophyte. Formerly: spec. an animal of a taxonomic division Phytozoa, which included some or all of the zoophytes. Now historical and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > zoophyte > [noun]
sensitive plant1601
zoophyton1601
zoophyte1606
plant-animal1621
zoophyton1627
animal plant1736
phytozoon1842
zoothome1872
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 927/2 Phytozoons, Phytozoa, this term is applied by various naturalists to different sections of the sub-kingdom Zoophyta of Cuvier.
1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes i. 7 (note) Ehrenberg has proposed to substitute phytozoa, derived from the same roots [as Zoophyte]..and phytozoum refers only to a single polyp.
1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 961/2 Phytozoon, Phytozoum, applied by Eichwald to a type of the animal kingdom comprehending animals in which (Polypi, Hydræ, Corallia) the inorganic texture gives place to that of vegetables, the exterior only presenting the character of animality in the homogeneous mass which constitutes it.
1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 31 This granular matter..is resolved into a mass of apparently living animalcules called phytozoa.
1925 P. Radin & V. C. C. Collum tr. E. Perrier Earth before Hist. ii. vi. 155 Outside the ‘Phytozoa’, in which fixation is primitive, this attachment to the ground occurs as an ancestral condition in the Cirripedes..and the Tunicates.
1946 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 7 93 The anonymous manuscript of 1780..which Thienemann prints in extenso, also proceeds from the polyps or ‘phytozoa,’ through eleven principal grades to the apes and finally homo sapiens.
1981 Q. Rev. Biol. 56 409 (table) [Animalia] Phytozoa. Actinozoa. Malacozoa. Entomozoa. Spondylozoa... The classification of the table is retained from Bronn (1861).
2. Botany. A spermatozoid (male gamete). Obsolete.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [noun] > parts of > cells > reproductive cell or gamete > male gamete
phytozoon1845
antherozoid1853
spermatozoid1857
pollinoid1881
1845 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 15 265 The structure therefore is perfectly similar to the antheridia of mosses..: the same with respect to the form of the phytozoa.
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. 237 One of these [reproductive cells] is the Antheridium, a cellular body containing granular matter, and Phytozoa.., or minute bodies which exhibit movements.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. v. 370 Minute cells called sperm-cells..in which are developed spiral ciliated filaments..termed spermatozoids or phytozoa.
1878 Amer. Naturalist 12 748 They resemble the Bryogama in the definite development of the neutral form, and the indefinite development of the female form, but differ in the zoöspore-like form of the phytozoa.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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