sculpturingn.
/ˈskʌlptjʊərɪŋ/ 1. The action of sculpture v.; concrete, a sculptured marking.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun]
entailc1300
sculpture1390
carving1531
engraving1552
statuary1563
engravery1566
insculption1599
scalpture1656
tomice1662
manusculpture1704
tooling1815
sculpturing1842
sculpting1876
mudding1892
machine sculpture1970
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [noun] > sculptured marking
sculpture1826
sculpturing1888
1842 H. Miller Old Red Sandstone (ed. 2) iv. 108 The sculpturings seem intended evidently for effect.
1879 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (new ed.) i. ii. 11 Thus land-surfaces everywhere, especially in mountain-regions, are cut away by a process of sculpturing.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 501 The chitinoid cuticle..is more or less marked by hexagonal areæ and by various sculpturings (dots, pits, lines, &c.).
2. Botany. The structural ornamentation of the surface of a pollen grain or spore.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts
sandarac1623
globulet1671
powder1672
bread1682
farina1721
pollen1723
father-dust1728
rough wax1744
yellow rain1755
dust1776
fovilla1793
anther dust1797
pollen mass1828
pollen tube1830
intextine1835
pollen grain1835
pollen granule1835
exine1839
exintine1839
intine1839
pollinium1849
sulphur shower1854
pollinic mass1857
pollen chamber1863
smoke1868
pollen sac1872
pollinarium1881
sulphur rain1882
pollinic chamber1885
perine1895
pollen content1926
sculpturing1943
monad1947
nexine1948
sexine1948
1943 G. Erdtman Introd. Pollen Anal. v. 43 The outer surface of the exine may sometimes be provided with some sculpturing or ornamentation. The ornamentations of sculptured pollen grains are exceedingly varied.
1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens ii. 37 The spores are unornamented, although exospore sculpturing is reported in Tholurna.
1970 Watsonia 8 4 The sculpturing of the perispore of D[ryopteris] assimilis differs from that of D. dilatata and D. carthusiana in density and shape and size of projections.
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