单词 | repand |
释义 | repandadj. Chiefly Botany. Esp. of a leaf: having a weakly sinuate margin; slightly wavy. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > margin or periphery > having a wavy margin sinuate1688 sinuated1727 crisp1753 repanded1753 repand1760 crisped1802 wavy1832 crispate1846 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. v. 177 Repand, bending back again; when the Margin is terminated with Angles and interjacent Sinusses, that are both inscribed with the Segments of Circles. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 377 The leaves also are repand or waved on their edges. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. xlvi. 297 Repand, cut into very slight sinuations, so as to run in a serpentine direction. 1881 Gardeners' Chron. 16 784 It has probably been confounded with Lactarius pyrogatus, but is abundantly different in the larger stature, repand pileus [etc.]. 1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants i. 39 (in figure) Lead Margins 1. serrate. 2. dentate (toothed). 3. crenate (scalloped). 4. repand (undulate). 5. sinuate. 6. incised. 1978 Amer. Fern Jrnl. 68 92 I have applied this name to the plants whose most conspicuous and distinctive feature is the lightly repand sterile portion of the frond. 2004 Novon 14 259 At least some leaves dentate, repand, lyrate, or pinnatifid. Compounds Prefixed to adjectives to form adjectives, with the sense ‘repand and ——’, ‘in a repand manner’. ΚΠ 1808 R. A. Salisbury Paradisus Londinensis II. ii. Pl. cxiii Lamina from 3 to 4 inches long, oblong-heart-shaped, repand-dentate. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 296 The lamellæ are neatly repand-toothed. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 294 Leaves repand-crenate. 1960 Amer. Midland Naturalist 63 118 Such leaves are more or less repand-crenate to repand-undulate along the strongly crispate-undulate postical margin and base. 1976 Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 1221/2 Repand-denticulate, weakly sinuate and minutely or finely dentate. 2006 P. Sell & G. Murrell Flora Great Brit. & Irel. IV. 204/2 Leaves entire to repand-dentate, the margin narrowly revolute, petiolate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1760 |
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