单词 | puberulent |
释义 | puberulentadj. Chiefly Botany. Of a leaf, stem, etc.: slightly downy with very short hairs; minutely pubescent. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > hair or bristle > [adjective] > having hair beardedc1450 downy1551 cottoned1578 friezed1578 maned1578 woolly1578 hairy1597 bristle-pointed1601 comous1657 fimbrious1657 tomentous1657 shagged1671 tomentose1698 crinated1724 villose1727 hispid1753 pubescent1760 setose1760 villous1766 lashed1776 silky1776 strigous1776 sericeous1777 awny1786 awned1787 strigose1793 shaggy1796 stupose1799 thready1804 feather-headed1821 setous1822 aristate1829 filamentous1835 fimbriate1836 puberulent1841 puberulous1841 sericated1848 barbate1853 strigillose1857 fimbrilliferous1866 ciliolate1870 fimbrillose1884 strigulated1899 1841 J. Torrey & A. Gray Flora N. Amer. II. i. 55 Style of the perfect flowers cylindraceous; the branches elongated, obtuse or clavate, externally puberulent or papillose towards the summit. 1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 177 Leaves..roughish-puberulent beneath. 1881 Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 18 278 A shrub..with puberulent, white..branchlets. 1918 H. D. House Wild Flowers N.Y. II. 226 The Purple Milkweed, rather rare in this State, has smooth or puberulent stems. 1996 G. Goodland Littoral 8 Thru patulous beechleaves, puberulent twigs of wayfaring tree & snowballs of elderbloom. Derivatives puˈberulence n. the property of being puberulent; minute pubescence. ΚΠ 1881 Bot. Gaz. 6 218 The whole plant clothed with a very minute puberulence. 1917 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 43 285 Flagellum naked except for a very fine, close and short puberulence. 1990 S. Afr. Jrnl. Bot. 56 577 I recommend inclusion of Antholiza sensu Brown in Babiana, noting their shared plicate leaves, general pubescence or puberulence, and base numbers of x = 7. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1841 |
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