单词 | runcinate |
释义 | runcinateadj. Botany. Esp. of a leaf: irregularly serrated, with the lobes or teeth curved toward the base. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > jagged, notched, or sharp-edged purfled?a1500 jagged?1523 snipped1578 cultellated1657 notched1682 crenated1688 emarginated1731 runcinated1773 runcinate1776 ancipital1785 ancipitous1859 ancipitate1879 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. (ed. 3) 383 Runcinatum, runcinate, like the Teeth of a great Saw whose Serratures are bent down~wards. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 384 Wild Succory has runcinate leaves. 1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 261 The runcinate blade of Taraxacum. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 161 When the terminal lobe is triangular..it is said to be runcinate. ?1877 F. E. Hulme Familiar Wild Flowers I. Summary p. viii Leaves obovate,..deeply pinnatifid, runcinate. 1914 H. S. Thompson & A. G. Tansley Flowering Plants Riviera 36 Lower leaves runcinate, upper ones hastate. 1997 B. Hallworth & C. C. Chinnappa Plants of Kananaskis Country 272 The leaves are pinnately lobed and prickly margined; the lobes are often pointed with the points bending backwards (runcinate). Compounds C1. Prefixed to adjectives with the sense ‘runcinate and ——’, ‘in a runcinate manner’, as runcinate-pinnatifid, runcinate-toothed, etc. ΚΠ 1783 tr. J. Elmgren Bot. Terms in tr. C. Linnaeus Syst. Veg. (1785) I. p. xxi Leaves runcinate-feather-cleft tooth'd, flowers spiked verticil'd. 1786 J. Abercrombie Gardener's Pocket Dict. II. 104 Leaves lance-shape, torn runcinate-dentated. 1803 W. Turton tr. C. Linnaeus Gen. Syst. Nature VI. 1285 Leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, glabrous: stem weak. 1830 W. J. Hooker Brit. Flora 305 Leaves runcinate toothed and as well as the stem glabrous. 1900 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 27 349 The branches are thicker and more divaricate, the leaves slightly runcinate-pinnate, and the plant even woodier at the base. 2000 Willdenowia 30 316 Basal leaves rosulate, variable, entire to sinuate-dentate or runcinate-pinnatifid. C2. runcinate-leaved adj. now rare (chiefly in the names of plants) having runcinate leaves. ΚΠ 1812 W. T. Aiton Hortus Kewensis (ed. 2) IV. 124 Runcinate-leaved Cabbage. 1833 R. Sweet Brit. Flower Garden 2nd Ser. II. §177 Solánum runciniátum. Runcinate-leaved Nightshade. 1906 T. Fox How to find & name Wild Flowers (1908) 89 Runcinate-leaved Cabbage. 1997 R. Bourie & E. H. Turner Exploring Mount Helena 96 (table) Stephanomeria runcinata..Runcinate-leaved skeletonweed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1776 |
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