单词 | acerose |
释义 | aceroseadj. 1. Full of or resembling chaff. rare. ΚΠ 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Acerose, chaffie, full of or mixed with chaff. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Acerose. 1956 R. W. Brown Composition Sci. Words (rev. ed.) 682 Acerosus, chaffy: acerate, acerose, Acalles acerosus (a beetle). 2. Originally Botany. Needle-shaped and rigid, as the leaves of a pine tree; sharply pointed; acicular.In quot. 1971 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having particular shape creviced1558 bladed1578 curled1578 purled1578 rank-toothed1578 fingered1597 cultellated1657 pounced1681 reduced1682 cuspidate1693 frontated1719 cuspidated1731–7 subrotund1753 acerose1760 hastate1760 involute1760 oblique1760 acerousc1789 strap-spear-shaped1796 immarginate1800 submarginate1807 replicate1812 toothleted1812 angustate1826 palaceous1832 bicrenate1835 basisolute1847 replicative1852 frontate1855 hastile1857 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. 173 Acerose, chaffy; when it is linear and persisting; as in Pinus. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxviii. 445 The leaves of all these are linear and persistent; Linnæus calls this sort of leaf acerose. 1823 J. L. Drummond First Steps Bot. iv. 123 Trees of the pine-tribe have been named arbores acerosæ..from their having, with only a few exceptions, acerose leaves. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 164 When a linear leaf terminates in a sharp rigid point like a needle..it is acerose or needle-shaped. 1913 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1912 25 80 Trees with acerose leaves (acicles or needles) singly or in fascicles. 1971 College Composition & Communication 22 83/1 Some of America's best contemporary fiction ranging from the acerose wit of Mary McCarthy to the almost surreal irony of James Purdy. 2003 Mycologia 95 493/1 Encrusting pigment present (with purple acerose crystals dissolving in KOH). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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