单词 | quinquefid |
释义 | quinquefidadj. Chiefly Botany. Now rare. Esp. of a leaf, calyx, etc.: divided in five sections to about halfway; five-cleft. Cf. quinquepartite adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > divided, segmented, slashed, or lobed lobated1703 quinquefid1703 lobousa1722 biparted1725 tripartite1753 lobate1760 octofid1760 septemfid1777 parted1785 triquadrifid1833 rimiform1837 slashed1839 lobulate1862 bipartite1864 palmilobed1876 pentafid1882 segmented1883 lobose1885 torn1888 triquinate1891 sectile1899 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1425 The calyx is quinquifid and hoary. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxi. 297 Their common characters are a quinquefid calyx. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §148 [Simple leaves] may be..trifid, quinquefid, septemfid, multifid. 1858 E. Hitchcock Ichnol. New Eng. 55 Fore foot quinquefid, rather digitigrade. 1876 J. Harley Royle's Man. Materia Med. (ed. 6) 711 The..true calyx is one-leafed..with an obtusely quinquifid Margin. 1910 Encycl. Brit. X. 563/1 They [sc. divisions] extend down the calyx as fissures about halfway, the calyx being trifid (three-cleft), quinquefid (five-cleft), &c. 1969 Taxon 18 466/2 Still later..he [sc. Linnaeus] had P. fruticosa as the only species of his third group of Portulaca, characterized by a quinquefid calyx. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1703 |
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