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单词 tardigrade
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tardigraden.adj.

Brit. /ˈtɑːdᵻɡreɪd/, U.S. /ˈtɑrdəˌɡreɪd/
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French tardigrade; Latin tardigradus.
Etymology: < (i) French tardigrade (adjective) slow-paced (1615 in an apparently isolated attestation with reference to a tortoise; subsequently from 1842), (noun) kind of very small invertebrate, water bear (1764), (plural) the sloths (E. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier 1795), or its etymon (ii) classical Latin tardigradus walking slowly < tardi- , combining form of tardus tarde adj. (compare -i- connective) + -gradus -grade comb. form. With senses A. 2a and B. 2b compare scientific Latin Tardigrada phylum of invertebrates (see Tardigrada n.); with senses A. 2b and B. 2a compare scientific Latin Tardigrada, former suborder of mammals (J. Latham and H. Davies, in J. R. Forster 1795).
A. n.
1. A person or thing that moves slowly. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Tardigrade, a slow goer.
2. Zoology.
a. An invertebrate of the phylum or group Tardigrada; a water bear.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > member of Tardigrada
tardigrade1800
water bear1848
bear animalcule1855
1800 Edinb. Mag. May 327/2 Spallanzani afterwards describes the volvox and the slow-moving animalculæ (rotifere and tardigrade) those colossuses of the microscopic world.
1826 Lancet 8 July 459/1 The rotiferes and tardigrades, had the power of being recalled to life.
1872 C. Darwin in F. Darwin Life & Lett. C. Darwin (1887) III. 169 On this view, a Rotifer or Tardigrade is adapted to its humble conditions of life by a happy accident; and this I cannot believe.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiv. 376 Another puzzling order is that of the Bear Animalcules, Water Bears, Sloth Animalcules, or Tardigrades.
1971 Sci. Amer. Dec. 34/4 As far as tardigrades are concerned all but a tiny percentage of body water can be lost without affecting the animals' revivability.
2003 Ireland on Sunday 20 July 39/1 Microscopic creatures known as tardigrades, or water bears, are the Rip van Winkles of the natural world.
b. An edentate mammal of the former suborder Tardigrada; a sloth. Also figurative. Now rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Edentata > [noun] > family Bradypodidae (sloth)
sloth1613
sluggard1668
lazya1682
tardigrade1827
bradypod1833
1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom III. 251 The tardigrades will form the first class [of the Edentata]... Their name is derived from their excessive slowness.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 208 The last family..in the present Order [sc. Edentates] is very well distinguished by the name of Tardigrades.
1896 A. Tille tr. F. Nietzsche Thus spake Zarathustra 308 For if ye are not sick and worn out wretches of whom earth is weary, ye are sly tardigrades [Ger. Faulthiere].
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiv. 377 In the technical name Tardigrade (also applied to the sloths) there is a reference to the very deliberate sluggish movements.
B. adj.
1.
a. That walks or moves slowly; slow-paced.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > slowness > [adjective] > moving slowly
slowa1398
slow-movingc1450
slow-bellied1554
lazya1568
slow-footed1587
slow-paced1594
leaden-footed1596
snaily1596
snail-paced1597
dragglinga1599
leaden-heeled1598
ambling1600
slow-foot1607
sluggisha1616
slow-pacing1616
tortoise-paced1623
slow-going1634
leaden-stepping1645
tardigradous1652
tardigrade1656
snail-crawleda1658
dawdling1773
loitering1791–2
slow-stepping1793
creepy1794
lugging1816
tortoise-footed1818
crawling1820
creepy-crawly1858
slowing1877
lead-foot1896
soodling1951
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Tardigrade, that goeth slow or hath a slow pace.
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. xiv. 402 The Deborah proved a marine hackney-coach of the most tardigrade order.
1875 W. Houghton Sketches Brit. Insects 145 The Meloë..a bloated, tardigrade, wingless beetle upon the meadow.
1981 T. C. Boyle Water Music (1983) iii. 352 The steady wash of the rain, the tardigrade progress, the inexorable attrition.
1996 G. Goodland Littoral 11 From deserted village to inflated towns, hypertrophy of B&Bs & retirement complexes. Too far for my tardigrade feet.
b. figurative. Slow in thought or action; sluggish, unprogressive. rare.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [adjective] > specifically of persons
slowc1300
sluggishc1450
tardious?1572
dreich1606
slowback1610
reluctant1797
tardigrade1813
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > sluggish or heavy
slowOE
sluggy?c1225
dull1393
slowfulc1400
sluggedc1430
sluggingc1430
slugc1440
sluggishc1450
lithera1500
peakish1519
lumpish1528
sopit1528
loiterous1566
slugring1566
drowsy1570
slow-bellied1576
snailish1581
blate1597
druggly1611
jacent1611
clammy1622
loggish1642
ignave1657
sliving1661
druggle-headed1694
slow-coachish1844
loggy1847
logy1859
tardigradous1866
tardigrade1883
1813 New Ann. Reg. 1812 Domest. Lit. 394/2 Mr. Brougham..has advised that we should commence upon a small scale, and proceed with a cautious and most tardigrade pace.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Dec. 4/2 Even in our tardigrade West Country the farmer has begun to discover,..that he, too, is an economical power.
1999 M. Sáenz Identity Liberation Lat. Amer. Thought ii. 138 Davis mentions..two intimately connected characteristics of the Latin American Enlightenment, namely its tardigrade character and its political conservatism.
2. Zoology.
a. Of or relating to the former suborder Tardigrada of edentate mammals, comprising the sloths. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > order Edentata > [adjective] > relating or belonging to sloths
tardigrade1800
bradypodal1843
1800 A. Carlisle in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 90 101 The habits of life among the tardigrade animals, give occasion for the long continued contraction of some muscles in their limbs.
1855 R. Owen in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 145 360 Imbued with the principles of the transcendental and transmutative hypotheses.., they regard the great Megatherium and Megalonyx as being not merely predecessors but progenitors of those still lingering remnants of the tardigrade race.
1892 W. H. Hudson Naturalist in La Plata xxii. 350 Tardigrade mammals of arboreal habits.
1998 Paleobiology 24 377/2 Naples..applied Greave's model to tardigrade edentates with proportionally larger teeth and more prominent ridges of hard dentine than in eutatines.
b. Of or relating to the invertebrate phylum or group Tardigrada.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [adjective] > belonging to Tardigrada
tardigrade1848
1848 E. Lankester in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. 415/1 Doyere states that he has found zoospores in the tardigrade Infusoria.
1857 Eclectic Mag. Jan. 51/2 The rotifera and tardigrade animalcules support a heat of 212°C.
1927 Science 9 Dec. 554/1 The Tardigrade genus Macrobiotus occurs in the lake.
1987 M. S. Laverack & J. Dando Lect. Notes Invertebr. Zool. (ed. 3) xxiv. 138/1 The tardigrade juvenile is small with a head and four segments.
2004 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 271 Suppl. 4. 189/2 In the British Isles, the tardigrade fauna has been studied by Murray..and Morgan & King.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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