单词 | submarginal |
释义 | submarginaladj.n. A. adj. 1. Chiefly Zoology. Situated near the margin of a body or part. Also (of cells in the wing of certain insects): lying behind the marginal cell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > situated near margin of body or organ submarginal1800 the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > margin or periphery peripherial1653 peripherical1690 marginated1727 submarginated1752 submargined1783 margineda1794 marginal1796 submarginal1800 peripheral1808 peripheric1818 marginate1822 limbate1826 bipectinated1836 submarginate1856 marginiform1857 bipectinate1870 limbic1882 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > (of wing cells) behind marginal cell submarginal1903 1800 W. Turton tr. C. Linnaeus Gen. Syst. Nature II. 138 [Coccinella]Variabilis. Oblong; shells black with 2 lunate submarginal red spots. 1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 877 Sori..marginal or submarginal. 1846 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes 142 Tentacles..submarginal. 1872 H. A. Nicholson Man. Palæontol. 107 Most commonly the anus is marginal, or is sub-marginal. 1903 Ohio Naturalist 3 417 Wings with..a broad stripe of the same color starting at the base..and thence to the apex of the wing, including the whole of the first submarginal cell. 1955 Systematic Zool. 4 80/2 A well-defined row of submarginal papillae was present between the ends of the third lower tooth row. 2008 Florida Entomologist 91 34/2 The submarginal band on the hindwing..is curved caudad on the male and curved throughout on females. 2. a. Of land: of low productivity; not capable of being farmed profitably. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective] unbearingc825 deafc897 westyOE wastumlessc975 wilderna1050 drya1340 gelda1350 barren1377 unfructuousa1382 poora1387 ungreenc1400 infecundc1420 farrow1494 fruitlessa1513 unfruitful1531 sterile1552 hungry1577 penurious1594 unfertile1596 infertile1598 howling1611 ungenitureda1616 arid1656 infecundous1661 ungendering1706 yeld1721 unproductive1725 infructuose1727 ungenerative1733 fallow1791 nihili-parturient1812 dowf1824 wastec1825 non-productive1830 unreproductive1836 infructuous1860 unvintaged1869 increative1877 ablastemic1881 submarginal1895 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > difficult of cultivation laboursome1604 tetchy1847 submarginal1895 1895 Trans. Australasian Inst. Mining & Metall. 3 260 The sub-marginal highlands in the neighbourhood of the Dampier Archipelago in the north-west. 1930 Economist 9 Aug. 272/1 It permits the survival of sub-marginal farms which plainly ought to be driven out of cultivation by the operation of economic forces. 1970 E. Flores in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. ix. 336 Public lands could not be given to anybody simply because they were submarginal. 2004 High Country News 2 Aug. 12/2 A lot of this is submarginal ground. b. Less or worse than marginal in quality or degree; (Economics) not financially profitable; below the limit of profitability or sustainability; cf. marginal adj. 4a. ΚΠ 1908 H. J. Davenport Value & Distribution xxi. 435 Unlike land, labor and capital have no sub-marginal representatives. 1926 B. M. Anderson Value of Money ii. xiii. 227 Let the pecuniary capital increase, however, and sub-marginal exchanges become worth while. 1940 Negro in Virginia xxviii. 327 Sub-marginal groups have a total income of $259 or less. 1950 S. J. Perelman Swiss Family Perelman i. 7 Siam was a vast malarial marsh, oppressively hot and crowded with underprivileged folk scratching out a submarginal existence. 1988 U.S. Banker (Nexis) Nov. 66 One path leads to the unrelenting submarginal performance of their banks, and the other to the banks' early demise. 2008 R. Degen Triumph of Capitalism (2010) iv. 157 Large numbers of single mothers have left the welfare rolls and joined the work force but are still straining to get by on marginal or submarginal incomes. B. n. Zoology. A submarginal part; esp. a submarginal cell in an insect's wing. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [noun] > margin or periphery limbus1671 margin1675 submarginal1827 limbation1881 margination1954 the world > life > biology > substance > cell > types of cells > [noun] > other types of cells reticular cell1832 torula1833 reserve cell1842 subcell1844 parenchyma cell1857 pedicel cell1858 nettle cell1870 heterocyst1872 prickle cell1872 angioblast1875 palisade cell1875 sextant1875 spindle cell1876 neuroblast1878 body cell1879 plasma cell1882 reticulum cell1882 stem cell1885 Langhans1886 basal cell1889 pole cell1890 myelocyte1891 statocyst1892 mast cell1893 thrombocyte1893 iridocyte1894 precursor1895 nurse cell1896 amacrine1900 statocyte1900 mononuclear1903 oat cell1903 myeloblast1904 trochoblast1904 adipocyte1906 polynuclear1906 fibrocyte1911 akaryote1920 Rouget cell1922 Sternberg–Reed1922 amphicyte1925 monoblast1925 pericyte1925 promyelocyte1925 pituicyte1930 agamete1932 sympathogonia1934 athrocyte1938 progenitor1938 Reed–Sternberg cell1939 submarginal1941 delta cell1942 mastocyte1947 squame1949 podocyte1954 transformed cell1956 transformant1957 spheroplast1958 pinealocyte1961 immunocyte1963 lactotroph1966 mammotroph1966 minicell1967 proheterocyst1970 myofibroblast1971 cybrid1974 1827 Zool. Jrnl. Jan. 71 The muscular impressions are large and the submarginal is orbiculate ovate with a considerable inflexion just even with the anterior ear. 1868 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 2 323 The second recurrent nervure received at intersection of second and third submarginals. 1890 Insect Life (U.S. Dept. Entomol.) 2 228 Of these, 16 males and 24 females have three submarginals, and 8 males and 29 females have four. 1941 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1940 92 346 Fore wing with marginal cell rather long and narrow, not as wide as the submarginals, pointed at end. 1995 Condor 97 298/2 The smaller submarginals of the upper mandible are the only filtering elements. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1800 |
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