单词 | pinnule |
释义 | pinnulen. 1. Either of two sights (usually small square metal plates, pierced with holes, and each turning on a hinge) at the ends of the alidade or index of an astrolabe, quadrant, or similar instrument. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical instruments > [noun] > parts of almuryc1400 alidadea1500 diopter1594 pinnule1594 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. f. 286 Which Diopter is made with two Pinules or square Tablets. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked liii. §528 Out of two stations by the pinules of the radius..they collect the quantity of the lines of a greater triangle, which is made between the two stations and the thing seen. 1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 171 He has joined pinules to his barometer, which by this means furnishes him with an instrument for levelling. 1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Hist. Astron. xiii. 67/1 A radius, moveable on the centre of the circle, carried the pinnules, and traced out with its extremity..the arc it was wished to measure. 1879 S. Newcomb & E. S. Holden Astron. for Schools & Coll. ii. 59 Until the middle of the seventeenth century, when an astronomer wished to determine the altitude of a celestial object.., he was obliged to point his quadrant..at the object by means of ‘pinnules’. 1994 J. North Fontana Hist. Astron. & Cosmol. xii. 302 One observer viewed the object through pinnules on the sighting rule, another entered results in a ledger, and a third noted the time on two clocks. 2. Zoology. Originally: any part or organ resembling a small wing or fin, or a barb of a feather; esp. †each of the small fins behind the second dorsal and anal fins of a mackerel or tuna (obsolete). Also (now chiefly): a subdivision of a pinna (pinna n.2 2b); esp. any of the jointed lateral branches along the arms of a crinoid. Cf. pinnula n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [noun] > limb > fin or flipper pinna1688 pinnule1688 pinnula1734 pectoral fin1751 flipper1822 flapper1836 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Scombroidei (mackerel) > [noun] > family Scombridae > genus Scomber > member of (mackerel) > parts of pinnule1688 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Echinodermata > [noun] > division Pelmatozoa > class Crinoidea > member of > parts of > branch of arm pinnule1877 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvi. 374/2 Pinnules, Fins of a Fish or the quils or shafts in them. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 244 The Scomber, with five pinnules at the extremity of the back. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 594 Margin of the pinnules pectinate. 1877 C. W. Thomson Voy. ‘Challenger’ II. ii. 97 The pinnules arising from either side of the arm alternately. 1913 Times 11 Sept. 11/5 When we examine each particoloured pinnule in a peacock's tail, [etc.]. 1962 D. Nichols Echinoderms ix. 110 The food-collecting grooves, extending along each arm and pinnule,..are lined by tube-feet in groups of three. 1991 R. Goldring Fossils in Field iv. 81 There is likely to be loss of the smaller skeletal elements such as pedicellaria, the smaller miliary spines of echinoids and pinnules of crinoids. 3. Botany. A subdivision of a pinna of a bipinnate leaf or frond, esp. of a fern; a leaflet, a lobe. Cf. pinnula n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [noun] > leaflet lacinia1668 label1672 pinna1703 label1707 pinnula1707 ala1712 lobe1731 pinnule1751 lobe-leaf1758 leafit1761 little leaf1775 wing1776 foliole1785 leaflet1811 lobelet1850 auricle1861 lobule1880 pinnulet1881 pointrel1881 1751 J. Hill Hist. Materia Medica 340 Each of these Alæ supporting or dividing into a Number of small Pinnules of an oblong, but very irregular Form. 1792 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) III. 141 Distinct from J. trilobata, the pinnules of which are eared and the leafits smaller. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. §95 In the Ferns..the primary divisions of the leaf are called pinnæ, the secondary pinnules, and the tertiary lobes or segments. 1877 Academy 3 Nov. 434/1 A long central rachis, carrying sub-sessile pinnules. 1913 Times 2 July 11/5 It is a variety of the warm greenhouse fern A. trapeziforme, but the trapeziform pinnules are expanded to a fan-shape. 1976 Nature 3 June 437/1 The behaviour of the leaf after a shock can be divided into two phases. First, the collapse lasts a few seconds, during which the pinnules fold together in pairs. 1992 M. Ingrouille Diversity & Evol. Land Plants 43 The segments of a pinnate leaf (pinnae) may be further divided (into pinnules) and subdivided up to five times. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1594 |
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