单词 | resupinate |
释义 | resupinateadj. 1. Chiefly Botany and Mycology. Inverted; spec. (a) (of a flower, esp. an orchid) turned upside down or apparently so by a twist of the stalk or ovary; (b) (of the cap (pileus) or fruiting body of a fungus) adpressed to the substrate with the spore bearing surface (hymenium) uppermost. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > growth, movement, or curvature of parts > [adjective] > turned, twisted, or nutating tort1765 resupinate1776 introrsal1831 introrse1842 sinistrorse?1850 torsive1866 circumnutating1880 circumnutatory1880 nutating1881 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > turned inwards, upwards, backwards, etc. reflexeda1500 resupinated1661 nutant1751 nodding1776 resupinate1776 reversed1777 deflex1791 retrorse1818 deflexed1826 deflected1828 fornicate1828 invaginated1835 antrorse1838 invertile1853 posterial1866 retrorsal1870 invaginate1887 invaginable1888 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) Explan. Terms 382 Resupinate, when the lower Disk of the Leaf looks upwards. 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 16 Resupinata, resupinate; turned upwards. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 240 The æstivation of the corolla..is an important consideration in determining whether a flower is resupinate or not. 1836 M. J. Berkeley in J. E. Smith Eng. Flora V. ii. 1 (note) The pileus is sometimes resupinate. the hymenium being uppermost... But in such cases there is a greater or less tendency to become reflected, so that the hymenium may gain its normal inferior position. 1884 19th Cent. Feb. 243 The leaves are long.., having sharp-pointed blades, barbed sides, and resupinate bark. 1922 E. W. Swanton Fungi & how to know Them (ed. 2) ii. 95 A curious fungus consisting of very slender..spines, ½–1 in. long, growing in a downward direction... There is no resupinate position. 1945 W. O. Howarth & L. G. G. Warne Lowson's Textbk. Bot. (ed. 9) xiii. 298 Owing to the twisting of the inferior ovary, the labellum [sc. of Orchidaceae] comes to be anterior (the resupinate condition—cf. Lobelia). 1962 C. J. Alexopoulos Introd. Mycol. (ed. 2) xxi. 496 The first indication of an organized basiodiocarp is a crust-like surface, flat on the substratum (resupinate) and having a smooth surface on which the hymenium is borne. 2001 Ann. Bot. 88 990/1 Goodyerinae... The flowers are resupinate and more or less tubular in shape, bearing noticeable spurs. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [adjective] > characterized by grammar unaccidentedc1740 resupinate1836 atactic1842 amalgamate1849 anaptotic1850 isolating1860 encapsulating1868 grammarless1868 uninflected1875 amalgamating1877 intercalative1882 postmutative1899 positional1908 1836 C. S. Rafinesque in Amer. Nations Spring ii. 66 The Resupinate or Reflexed Group [of American languages]: where the roots or nouns substantive are reversed, following the adjectives or epithetes, which are prefixed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1776 |
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