单词 | yellow cell |
释义 | > as lemmasyellow cell yellow cell n. Biology (now historical) any of various typically yellow-brown photosynthetic dinoflagellates which frequently live as symbionts within the cells of certain marine invertebrates; cf. zooxanthella n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > other algae slake?a1505 laver1611 sea purse1769 water-net1821 red snow1825 red snow plant1836 hydrodictyon1841 Protococcus1842 snow plant1846 purple laver1847 red snow alga1848 gory dew1861 yellow cell1861 spirogyra1875 blanket-weed1879 phycochrome1881 zoochlorella1882 chlamydomonas1884 zygnemid1887 gonyaulax1902 chlorella1904 chlorophyte1937 1861 Nat. Hist. Rev. 1 459 (table) No silicious spicula. No yellow cells [Fr. cellules jaunes]. 1883 Mem. Mus. Compar. Zool. Harvard 8 5 The small Medusæ buds already contain the peculiar yellow cells so characteristic of the free Medusæ. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 51 Most Radiolarians have as partners numerous unicellular plants belonging to the class of Algae. These minute organisms used to be called ‘yellow cells’, but they are inmates of the Radiolarian. 2004 A. C. Baker in E. Rosenberg & Y. Loya Coral Health & Dis. viii. 178 By correctly identifying the role of these ‘yellow cells’, he [sc. Karl Brandt] initiated a line of scientific inquiry that would ultimately lead to the recognition of these algae to be vastly more important than anyone had previously suspected. < as lemmas |
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