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单词 pulvinate
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pulvinateadj.

Brit. /ˈpʌlvᵻneɪt/, U.S. /ˈpəlvəˌneɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin pulvīnātus.
Etymology: < classical Latin pulvīnātus cushion-shaped, in scientific Latin also moderately convex (1686 or earlier in botanical use) < pulvīnus cushion (see pulvinus n.) + -ātus -ate suffix2. Compare French pulviné furnished with cushions or pillows (1611 in Cotgrave in an apparently isolated attestation), (of the surface of a fruit) having ridges (1803 in botanical use), cushion-shaped, moderately convex (1812 in botanical use). In sense 2 after pulvinus n. Compare earlier pulvinated adj.
1. Chiefly Botany and Entomology. Resembling a cushion in shape, moderately convex.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > having specific shape
fingered1597
fistular1640
umbilicated1693
pectinal1705
fornicated1750
deltoid1753
linguiform1753
panduriform1753
lingulated1754
campaniform1758
augmented1760
ringed1760
securiform1760
urceolate1760
utricular1760
lingulate1763
vermicular1766
pandurated1771
navicular1793
semicolumnar1793
ungulate1802
capitellate1808
meniscoid1821
virgate1821
mitriform1824
pulvinate1824
caudated1829
vulviform1829
caudate1830
circinate1830
intruded1830
trochlear1830
scalariform1836
hippocrepiform1847
neottious1850
pulviniform1851
foxglove-shaped1856
clathroid1857
molariform1857
velate1857
strombuliform1859
calceiform1860
coralline1860
forniciform1860
urceolar1860
calceolate1861
frustulose1866
pandurate1866
intruse1870
scalar1880
meniscoidal1881
fingerposted1885
applanate1887
trochleariform1895
naviculoid1898
halonate1911
1824 R. K. Greville Flora Edinb. 235 G. pulvinata, stems short, pulvinate.
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 328 Pulvinate, when in consequence of being depressed in one place, it seems to puff out in another.
1903 Science 13 Feb. 257/2 The stroma is sometimes almost entirely wanting, at other times well developed and conspicuously pulvinate.
1938 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 31 189 The poison apparatus is of the pulvinate form.
2005 Z. Smith On Beauty 58 These were shaped like fat Oriental gentlemen... Their pulvinate bellies were red satin, and it was here that the needles pierced.
2. Botany. Of a leaf or leaflet: having a pulvinus; = pulvinated adj. 3.
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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > petiole or leaf-stalk > [adjective] > of or having a pulvinule or struma
strumose1841
strumiferous1860
pulvinate1866
strumulose1866
pulvinated1880
pulvinar1882
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 940/2 Pulvinus (adj. Pulvinate, Pulviniform), a cushion-like enlargement at the base of some leaves, or at the apex of some petioles.
1959 New Phytologist 58 29 (title) The effects of daylength on the movements of pulvinate leaves.
1983 S. Holmes Outl. Plant Classif. viii. 100 Leaves often pulvinate in living genera, and with fleshy stipules.
1997 Current Biol. 7 581/2 Mutant leaves are simpler than wild-type leaves, having a shorter petiole bearing one to three pulvinate leaflets.

Derivatives

ˈpulvinately adv. Botany rare in a pulvinate form; with a tendency towards a convex shape.
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1884 Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl 19 48 Thalli pulvinately hemispherical, often confluent, impregnated with lime, and more or less indurated.
1962 Bryologist 65 259 Thyrea pulvinata is a pulvinately lobed, foliose or subfruticose lichen.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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