单词 | admotive |
释义 | admotiveadj. Botany. Now rare. Of germination: such that the testa of the seed remains attached to the base of the cotyledon, and the seedling develops next to the seed. Contrasted with remotive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > [adjective] > sprouting or germinating > of other types of germination admotive1819 remotive1819 pregermination1898 1819 J. Lindley tr. L.-C. Richard Observ. Struct. Fruits & Seeds 69 We may reduce to three principal heads the different modifications of germination in Endorhizæ; 1. Immotive. 2. Admotive. 3. Remotive. 1904 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 665 Adventitious roots are formed at the base of the root cone. In some types (admotive) one of these roots..may play the part of the principal root. 1988 Bot. Gaz. 149 54/1 In the Archontophoenix type (admotive), the cotyledon base elongates very little at germination but swells into a large button of tissue of the outside of the seed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1819 |
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