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单词 pteroid
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pteroidadj.1n.2

Brit. /ˈtɛrɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈtɛrɔɪd/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pteroides.
Etymology: < scientific Latin pteroides, adjective (1783 or earlier) < classical Latin pteris fern (see pteris n.) + -oīdēs -oid suffix. With the use as noun compare scientific Latin Pteroides, plural noun (1807 or earlier). N.E.D. (1909) gives the pronunciation as (pt-, te·roid) /pt-, ˈtɛrɔɪd/.
Botany.
A. adj.1
Having the characteristics of a fern of the genus Pteris or the family Pteridaceae; resembling a fern, filicoid. Cf. pteridoid adj.
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1845 C. Lyell Let. 28 July in Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1881) II. xxiv. 93 The near resemblance of the pteroid ferns.
1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 215/2 J. Smith uses ‘pteroid’ for Fern-like.
1935 New Phytologist 34 278 Polypodidoid sporangia are commoner in the later deposits than pteroid sporangia.
1964 Taxon 13 62 Pteroid ferns of open brushy places and rocky sites.
2001 Rev. Paleobot. & Palynol. 115 34/1 Stevenson and Schneider, in morphological cladistic analyses, grouped Lindsaeaceae and Dennstaedtiaceae together with pteroid ferns.
B. n.2
A pteroid fern.
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1949 Obit. Fellows Royal Soc. 6 367 The Dickinsoniaceae lead to the Davallioids and Pteroids, the Cyatheaceae to the Blechnoids and Dryopteroids.
1957 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 44 125 A more pessimistic regard toward Pellaea as a genus is evident in the view of Thomas Moore..for he considered it as a medley of pteroids, cheilanthoides and platylomas.
1979 Taxon 28 93 An exceptional pteroid, Pteris endoneura, has recently been described..in which there are simple or branched, free included veinlets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pteroidadj.2n.1

Brit. /ˈtɛrɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈtɛrɔɪd/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element; originally modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: Greek πτερόν , -oid suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek πτερόν feather, wing (see ptero- comb. form) + -oid suffix, in sense A. 1 after scientific Latin pteroides, adjective (1828 or earlier as a specific epithet in palaeontology). N.E.D. (1909) gives the pronunciation as (pt-, te·roid) /pt-, ˈtɛrɔɪd/.
A. adj.2
1. Chiefly Palaeontology. Esp. of the shell of a bivalve mollusc: resembling a wing. rare.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1038/1 Pteroides, resembling a wing..; pteroid.
1957 Jrnl. Paleontol. 31 761/1 Shell oblique, pteroid, with straight hinge and the slightly projecting beak nearer to the anterior than to the posterior.
1978 Jrnl. Paleontol. 52 1024/2 Small pteroid shells with small anterior and large posterior auricular areas.
2. Palaeontology. Designating various body parts of a pterosaur associated with the small anterior flight membrane, esp. a small, pointed bone that extends from the carpal region towards the shoulder and supports this membrane.
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1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 687 The ‘pteroid bone’ is maintained to be a part of the first digit; it supported a membrane extending from near the shoulder to the wrist.
1957 Jrnl. Paleontol. 31 953/2 Several obscure grooves..may have been made by the trailing edge of the wing or by the pteroid bone as the creature walked unsteadily through the mud.
2004 Nature 2 Dec. 572/1 The presence of the pteroid bone and the long wing-phalanges and wing-metacarpals within the egg shows that JZMP-03-03-2 is an embryonic pterosaur.
B. n.1
Palaeontology. The pteroid bone of a pterosaur.
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1882 O. C. Marsh in Geol. Mag. 9 209 The ‘lateral carpal’ unites both with the distal carpal and with the ‘pteroid’ by very free, well-defined articulations.
1958 W. E. Swinton Fossil Amphibians & Reptiles (ed. 2) xiii. 97 This is a small splint-like bone known as the pteroid and is not a true first digit.
1996 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 263 45 The origin of the pteroid is unclear: it may be a modified carpal, the first metacarpal, or a neomorph.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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