单词 | quintine |
释义 | † quintinen.1 Botany. Obsolete. In the terminology of C. F. B. de Mirbel: a fifth integumental layer in some developing ovules.The structure described by Mirbel apparently corresponds to the embryo sac. ΚΠ 1832 tr. C. F. B. de Mirbel in J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 158 I have remarked the fifth envelope, or quintine, in many species... Its complete development takes place only in a nucleus which remains full of cellular tissue, or in a quartine that has filled with the same. 1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. 226 Some authors, as Mirbel, consider the ovule in reference to the embryo, and speak of five coverings of the latter, viz. 1. primine; 2. secundine; 3. tercine, or the nucleus; 4. quartine, a temporary cellular layer, which is occasionally formed at an after period around 5. quintine, or the embryo-sac. 1876 J. Thomas Comprehensive Med. Dict. 184/1 Endopleura, collectively, the three coats of the seed, which in the ovule were the Tercine, Quartine, and Quintine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2020). † quintinen.2 Chemistry. Obsolete. rare. = pentyne n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > hydrocarbons > [noun] > alkynes > straight-chained, by number of carbon atoms > five quintine1868 valerylene1868 pentyne1877 1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) iii. 563 Quintine, or Valerylene, C5H8, is obtained by heating quintene bromide with alcoholic potash... Quintine forms two series of compounds. 1873 C. H. Ralfe Outl. Physiol. Chem. p. xviii Triads, Glycerin Series, Quintine or Valerylene C5 H8. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.11832n.21868 |
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