单词 | polliniferous |
释义 | polliniferousadj. 1. Of a flower, anther, etc.: producing pollen. Of a sedimentary deposit: containing pollen.Quot. 1800 refers to the sporogenous part of a fungus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having stamens or pistils > of or having pollen ambrosial1759 pollen-bearinga1794 polliniferous1800 pollinary1849 pollened1871 tricolpate1928 1800 J. Sowerby Coloured Figures Eng. Fungi (1803) III. Tab. CCLIX When the white skinny powdery deciduous covering (which may possibly be the polleniferous part) is dissolved, the inner entangled fibres..are disclosed. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 249 The male flowers consist of a peltate scale, around which are arranged several polliniferous cavities. 1888 F. A. Lees Flora W. Yorks. 470 Carex binervis Sm. ‘Seggs’. ‘Moor Palms’—the polliniferous catkins in bloom. 1915 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 42 117 I have found no polleniferous anthers, and think that they [sc. basal apetalous flowers] are pollinated from the staminate petaliferous flowers. 1958 F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 4) iii. 90 There is about one metre of blue lake marl below the polliniferous gyttja. 2001 Jrnl. Archaeol. Sci. 28 487 Polleniferous material including sources of Plantago lanceolata and cereal pollen were deposited on some cist floors before they were filled. 2. Entomology. Of an organ or part of an insect's body: carrying pollen; adapted for carrying pollen. Cf. pollinigerous adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [adjective] > of general parts > (adapted for) carrying pollen pollinigerous1819 polliniferous1866 1866 W. E. Shuckard Brit. Bees 20 A bee without polliniferous organs cannot collect pollen. 1912 Amer. Naturalist 46 94 Examination of the polleniferous scopa of the bees..showed that they all contained pollen. 1986 Jrnl. Ecol. 74 338 Bees which stayed longer at flowers would deposit relatively more grains, simply due to the increased chance that the stigma would touch a polleniferous area of the bee's body. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1800 |
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