单词 | retuseness |
释义 | retusenessn.ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > hoarse or husky quality hoarsenessc1000 rownessa1398 hoarseheadc1440 haskness?a1513 roup1579 raucity1607 retuseness1657 raucidity1669 throatiness1800 yawp1835 crackiness1891 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials i, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Eee4v It [sc. gum Tragacanth] emends..retusenesse of voice [L. retusas voces], and other defluxions. 2. Botany and Zoology. The condition of being retuse (retuse adj. 2); the degree to which something is retuse. ΚΠ 1839 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 6 14 In the elevation and retuseness of the beaks it resembles the U[nio] pyramidatus. 1888 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 2 223 In the female there is less retuseness and no tubercles. 1914 E. W. Berry Upper Cretaceous & Eocene Floras S. Carolina & Georgia 137 It..resembles somewhat certain leaves of Pistia corrugata Lesquereux from the Montana group, differing from this species in the degree of apical retuseness. 1944 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 48 140 (note) In figure 7, the oleaster variety of the olive, the modern ‘wild olive’, has young leaves the size of box, some malformed to retuseness. 1991 G. E. Dillard Freshwater Algae of Southeastern U.S. iv. 24 Key to Southeastern Genera of Desmidiaceae... Semicells dome-shaped above a slight basal retuseness..C. ligoniforme. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1657 |
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