单词 | pteroid |
释义 | pteroidadj.1n.2 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > other ferns mountain parsley1578 female fern1597 rock parsley1597 spleenwort1597 marsh fern1686 prickly fern1764 parsley fern1777 sensitive fern1780 lady fern1783 stone-brake1796 mountain fern1800 rock brake1802 walking leaf1811 todea1813 shield-fern1814 Woodsia1815 mangemange1817 cinnamon fern1818 climbing fern1818 bladder-fern1828 king fern1829 filmy fern1830 ostrich fern1833 New York fern1843 mokimoki1844 rhizocarp1852 film-fern1855 nardoo1860 gymnogram1861 holly-fern1861 limestone-polypody1861 elk-horn1865 Gleichenia1865 lizard's herb1866 cliff brake1867 kidney fern1867 Christmas fern1873 Prince of Wales feathers1873 Christmas shield fern1878 buckler-fern1882 crape-fern1882 stag-horn1882 ladder fern1884 oleander fern1884 stag fern1884 resam1889 lip-fern1890 coral-fern1898 bamboo fern1930 pteroid1949 fern-gale- 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 A. adj.2 1. Chiefly Palaeontology. Esp. of the shell of a bivalve mollusc: resembling a wing. rare. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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