单词 | acervate |
释义 | acervateadj. Botany and Zoology. Heaped; growing in heaps or closely compacted clusters. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > arranged in group or cluster tufted1629 agminated1811 agminate1842 acervate1846 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 293 The spines, in adult specimens, often acervate. 1937 Science 2 Apr. 333/2 The genus is next to Thrinax, but with several diagnostic characters, the massive columnar trunk, often more than a foot in diameter, acervate radicels, [etc.]. 1991 Mycologia 83 222 Chlamydospores in masses (acervate). DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adverb] > accumulatively > so as to form a heap or pile > in or by heaps hipplemeala1382 acervately1846 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 358 Cells at summit acervately proliferous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). acervatev. rare. transitive. To form into a mass; to pile up in a heap. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps wholec1443 consolidate1511 clod1530 thicken?1578 contract1620 acervate1623 lump1624 bundlea1628 club1641 to lump together (occasionally up)1692 commassate1694 slump1822 pack1824 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > heap or pile up heapc1000 ruck?c1225 ruckle?c1225 givelc1300 upheap1469 binga1522 pilec1540 copa1552 bank1577 hill1581 plet1584 conglomerate1596 acervate1623 coacervate1623 tilea1643 aggest1655 coacerve1660 pyramida1666 aggerate1693 big1716 bepilea1726 clamp1742 bulk1822 pang1898 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Aceruate, to mough up. 1711 G. Warren New Method curing Venereal Dis. (ed. 2) vi. 58 Whenever it meets with Channels so minute as not to admit it, it must stop there, and by the addition of new Matter be acervated in the form of a Tumour. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Acervate. 1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Acervate, to heap together.] 1927 P. Nixon Martial & Mod. Epigram 190 But his most grotesque piece of accumulated, acervated, agglomerated exaggeration is perhaps his description of the estate given him by Lupus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1846v.1623 |
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