serificadj.

Brit.

/sᵻˈrɪfɪk/, U.S.

/səˈrɪfɪk/

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French sérifique.

Etymology: < French sérifique ( L. Dufour Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les orthoptères, les hyménoptères et les névroptères (1841) 308; chiefly in glande sérifique ) < seri- (in classical Latin sēricum silk: see Seric adj.; compare also French sériculture sericulture n.) + French -fique -fic suffix.

Zoology. rare.

Of a gland in an insect or spider: producing silk.In quot. 1895 probably: = colleterial adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [adjective] > producing silk

sericipary1868

serific1885

1885 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 16 316 The serific glands, as Léon Dufour calls them, form at this period a voluminous bundle ventrally situated and composed of very long tubes, coiled together, bifid and multifid.

1895 A. Sedgwick in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. x. 246 There are a large number of ‘serific glands’ of two kinds in the female [of the Mantidæ].

1957 Jrnl. Biophysical & Biochem. Cytol. 3 302 The ovaries were removed from the living spider..and then freed from the attached serific glands.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	serific
释义	serificadj. Brit. /sᵻˈrɪfɪk/, U.S. /səˈrɪfɪk/ Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French sérifique. Etymology: < French sérifique ( L. Dufour Recherches anatomiques et physiologiques sur les orthoptères, les hyménoptères et les névroptères (1841) 308; chiefly in glande sérifique ) < seri- (in classical Latin sēricum silk: see Seric adj.; compare also French sériculture sericulture n.) + French -fique -fic suffix. Zoology. rare. Of a gland in an insect or spider: producing silk.In quot. 1895 probably: = colleterial adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > substance or secretion and excretion > [adjective] > producing silk sericipary1868 serific1885 1885 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 16 316 The serific glands, as Léon Dufour calls them, form at this period a voluminous bundle ventrally situated and composed of very long tubes, coiled together, bifid and multifid. 1895 A. Sedgwick in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. x. 246 There are a large number of ‘serific glands’ of two kinds in the female [of the Mantidæ]. 1957 Jrnl. Biophysical & Biochem. Cytol. 3 302 The ovaries were removed from the living spider..and then freed from the attached serific glands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1885
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