单词 | quadrisulcate |
释义 | quadrisulcaten.adj. Zoology and Botany. An ungulate mammal having the foot divided into four digits. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1007/1 Quadrisulcates, a name applied to those Ungulate quadrupeds in which the hoof is divided into four parts, corresponding to the four digits. B. adj. Having four grooves or furrows (now rare). Formerly also: †(of an ungulate mammal) having the foot divided into four digits (obsolete). ΚΠ 1853 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 707 (table) Viviparous hairy animals..either Solipedous, as the Horse,..Bisulcate,..or Quadrisulcate, as the Rhinoceros, Hippopotamus. 1876 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 15 132 Beak [sc. of a weevil] stouter than usual, with the ridges and grooves so strongly marked as to appears tricarinate and quadrisulcate. 1926 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 13 232 The perithecia are separately erumpent as flat, disc-like, quadrisulcate ostioles which do not project above the surface of the stroma. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1842 |
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