单词 | podo- |
释义 | podo-comb. form Of or relating to a foot or feet, or a footlike structure. ΚΠ 1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 990/1 Podocephalus..,applied to plants that have flowers united into heads borne upon long peduncles..; podocephalous. ΚΠ 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 908/2 Podogynium (adj. podogynous). ΚΠ 1852 C. MacKay Mems. Extraordinary Popular Delusions (rev. ed.) I. 252 [Citing Gaule, who uses ‘pædomancy’] Chiromancy, by the hands. Podomancy, by the feet. Onchyomancy, by the nails. 1897 tr. E. Ferri Criminal Sociol. 2 After the medieval gropings in chiromancy, metoscopy, podomancy and so forth, one comes to the seventeenth century studies in physiognomy by the Jesuit Niquetius. podometer n. Brit. /pɒˈdɒmᵻtə/ , /pəˈdɒmᵻtə/ , U.S. /pɑˈdɑmədər/ , /pəˈdɑmədər/ [ < podo- comb. form + -meter comb. form2, after French podomètre (1690; used as variant of slightly earlier pédomètre pedometer n.)] = pedometer n. 1.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring distances > distance travelled waywiser1651 perambulator1688 wheel1696 walking wheel1701 odometer1702 pedometer1723 pedometer1728 podometer1728 reel measure1803 viameter1845 roadometer1848 trocheameter1857 trechometer1858 cyclometer1880 pedimeter1890 passometer1902 sledge-meter1902 speedometer1929 mileometer1953 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Podometer, or Way-wiser, a Mechanical Instrument, in form of a Watch. 1967 S. Beckett No's Knife 158 We did not keep tally of the days. If I arrive at ten years it is thanks to our podometer. Total milage divided by average daily milage. 2004 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 29 Mar. Members of the committee are also taking part in a podometer trial to see how far they walk each day. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > measuring by the foot podometry1656 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Podemetry, foot measure, or a measuring by the foot. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Podimetry, (Greek) a measuring by the foot. 1693 T. Rymer Short View Trag. sig. I4 They must have played bare-foot: the spectators would not have been content without seeing their Podometry. podoscopy n. Brit. /pɒˈdɒskəpi/ , /pəˈdɒskəpi/ , U.S. /pɑˈdɑskəpi/ , /pəˈdɑskəpi/ = podomancy n.ΚΠ 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 4/2 The treatises also contain occasional digressions on onychomancy,..podoscopy, spasmatomancy. 1917 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics IX. 591/1 The Chinese transferred the palmists' attention to the foot, and their curious interest in the compressed female foot has produced a pseudo-science of ‘podoscopy’. 1960 A. B. Griswold in M. C. Subhadradis Diskul et al. Arts of Thailand iv. 98 As palmistry relies on an inspection of the lines and creases in the hand, so podoscopy relies on an inspection of the lines and creases in the footsole. ΚΠ 1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands ii. ix. 235 A species..of the curious group of podosomatous crustaceans, resembling a transparent spider, without head or body. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > [noun] > parts of > funicle umbilical vessel1731 funiculus1732 podosperm1819 umbilical cord1819 retinaculum1821 funicle1824 umbilicus1837 umbilical bundle1875 1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 22 When a seed bends back suddenly in a direction contrary to its podosperm..it is reclined by its proper direction. 1874 R. Brown Man. Bot. iii. iv. 364 The ovule may be either sessile, or..placed on a stalk (the funiculus, or podosperm), which is simply a prolongation of the placenta. ΚΠ 1890 Cent. Dict. Podostomatous, having foot-like mouthparts; belonging to the Podostomata. 1893 Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci. 6 322 The Podostomatous line [of Arthropoda was]..the first to be struck off from the Annelidan stock (the trilobites being the first forms to appear). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1656 |
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