单词 | vegetable economy |
释义 | > as lemmasvegetable economy a. Biology. The interactions between organisms, their individual biology, form, and functions; (in later use often) spec. physiology. Esp. in animal economy, vegetable economy, etc. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > [noun] > other biological studies economy1683 parthenology1853 phenology1884 genetics1905 behavioural science1937 anthrozoology1992 1683 W. Charleton Three Anat. Lect. i. 33 The admirable effects and benefits arising to the Animal Oeconomy from the same Velocity of the Circulation of the Bloud. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 558 Dendranatome may, tho' more remotely, advance even the Practice of Physick, by the Discovery of the Oeconomy of Plants. 1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. iv. 19 An Animal-Order or Oeconomy, according to which the Animal Affairs are regulated and dispos'd. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 290 To let 'em see I know something of the animal economy, tho' little of their juggling. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Absorption Absorption in the animal economy is used for that power whereby the small open orifices of vessels imbibe liquors. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. Introd. 2 They..had no idea..of the vegetable œconomy. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. I. xxv. 304 The bottoms of ships are made to terminate behind in a shape somewhat resembling a wedge; and the same economy may be observed in the forms of fishes. 1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 182 Water is absolutely necessary to the œconomy of vegetation. 1833 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 123 624 Some observations on the economy of molluscous animals. 1879 Proc. Royal Soc. 30 404 We cannot consider..that so well-marked and striking a function of the small intestine as that converting maltose into dextrose can be useless to the animal economy. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xiv. 324 Phosphorus is of fundamental importance in the economy of the plant, involved as it is in protein formation, as well as in respiration and other functions. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 803/1 Lorenz contrasts intraspecific aggression with the aggression shown between members of different species; in animal economy the latter plays much the lesser role. 2000 Isis 91 738 The generally acknowledged ‘founder’ of pneumatic chemistry, Stephen Hales, carried out experiments on the circulation and other aspects of the ‘animal economy’ and the movement of sap in plants. < as lemmas |
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