单词 | capitate |
释义 | capitateadj.n. A. adj. 1. Botany and Zoology. Of an organ or part, esp. a long and narrow one: having a distinct head; knob- or pin-headed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > projection or protuberance > [adjective] > rounded projection nodous1646 tuberous1650 papillar1651 verrucous1656 capitate1661 clavate1661 papillary1667 warty1693 tuberculated1696 papillous1718 tubercular1719 clavated1728 tuberculous1732 mammillated1744 tubercled1746 papillose1752 torulous1752 tuberculose1752 tuberculate1777 tubercle-like1792 mastoid1800 tuberculiferous1802 ventricose1804 torulose1806 papillated?a1808 tuberculiform1817 bullated1822 nodulous1822 tuberiform1822 nodulated1824 papilliform1824 mammular1826 papilliferous1826 nodulose1828 knuckled1842 mamelonated1843 tuberculoid1853 papillate1857 mammilloid1859 tuberculosquamous1866 bosselated1873 papulate1876 bulbar1878 tubero-cystic1879 mammulose1889 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia sig. *7 Gudgin capitate and not capitate. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xiv. 36 The Figure of the Stigma is either Capitate, headed, as in Tribulus..; Globose, Globe-shaped, as in Primula..; [etc.]. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 274 [The Pistil] capitate, forming a little round head. 1848 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Zoophytes (new ed.) 135 Tentacles long and capitate. 1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 306/1 Capitate, having a head; pin-headed, as the stigma of the Primrose. 1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. vi. 45 Head somewhat narrow with finely capitate hairs; eyes black; ocelli well developed; [etc.]. 1979 Brittonia 31 144 The teeth deltoid, aristulate to aristate or capitate by a sessile pelviform gland. 2005 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 166 851/1 Metcalfe and Chalk reported that uniserate and glandular capitate hairs also occur in Platanus. 2. Botany. Designating or having an inflorescence consisting of a close terminal cluster or head of flowers, typical of the members of the family Asteraceae ( Compositae). Also in the names of plants having flower heads of this type. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > formed into an inflorescence tufted1629 capitated1682 coronated1682 capitate1687 aggregate1693 aggregated1706 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 285 The capitate Herb, whose flowers are fistular. 1756 J. Hill Brit. Herbal 431 Linnæus places this with the other capitate plants among the syngenesia. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. x. 107 Capitate flowers like the thistles. 1837 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 5 147 Remarkably distinguished by its conglomerated and almost capitate panicles. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 298 Dense-headed Rush, or Capitate Rush. 1929 J. W. Bews World's Grasses i. 18 By a shortening of the main axis the false spike becomes headlike or capitate. 1988 Harrowsmith Jan. 66/1 Capitate false sagebrush, a six-inch perennial that forms loose mats of silver-grey foliage and has yellow flowers in summer. 2000 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 87 1385 Brownea latifolia has cauliflorous capitate flower clusters that arise as racemes. B. n. Anatomy. = capitate bone n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > bones of wrist navicular?a1425 navicular bone?a1425 wrist-bone1552 carpus1686 scaphoid bone1741 pisiform bone1753 pisiform1808 trapezoid1828 trapezium1840 unciform1840 scaphoid1846 carpal1854 lunar1854 centrale1870 radiale1870 intermedium1878 lunar bone1887 capitate1889 triquetral bone1913 1889 J. K. Young Synopsis Human Anat. 65 Os magnum, or capitate, the largest carpal bone, consists of a body, neck, and head. 1930 Science 27 June 647/1 The articular surface extends from the lunate down past the upper end of the capitate (magnum) to the lesser multangular (trapezoid). 2004 L. Scheuer & S. Black Juvenile Skeletion ix. 298 The normal sequence of appearance for the carpal bones is that the capitate appears first, followed closely by the hamate. Compounds capitate bone n. [after scientific Latin os capitatum (1749 or earlier)] Anatomy the largest of the bones of the human wrist, located in the distal row of carpal bones and having a prominent head.Until the Basle Nomina Anatomica (1895), this bone was more commonly called os magnum. ΚΠ 1861 J. Leidy Elem. Treat. Human Anat. 138 The capitate bone, the largest of the second carpal row, has a prominent convex head articulating with the scaphoid, lunar, and unciform bones. 1913 Cunningham's Text-bk. Anat. (ed. 4) 223 An exceptional case..in which the centres for the capitate and triquetral bones were already present [at birth]. 2005 Jrnl. Biomechanics 38 1592/1 All subjects were right-handed, and their hand lengths, measured as the distance from the tip of digit 3 to the dorsal groove between the lunate and capitate bones, ranged from 142.4 to 182.5 mm. Derivatives ˈcapitated adj. Botany and Zoology = sense A. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > formed into an inflorescence tufted1629 capitated1682 coronated1682 capitate1687 aggregate1693 aggregated1706 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > of or having stamens or pistils > of or having style, pistil, or female parts > having specific quantity, form, or arrangement capitated1682 included1751 pinheaded1751 monogynous1757 pentagynous1772 trigynous1775 monogynian1787 polygynous1795 pin-eyed1810 heptagynian1828 pentagynian1828 polygynian1828 tetragynian1828 octagynous1836 stigmatose1840 polygynious1841 heptagynious1854 monogynious1857 octagynious1857 pentagynious1857 tetragynious1860 tetrastylous1860 trigynious1860 monogynic1891 tristigmatose1891 tristylous1891 tetragynous1899 tristigmatic1900 1682 N. Grew Anat. Plants iv. ii. App. 176 Without Stalks, that is, Capitated, as in Scabious. 1726 R. Bradley Gen. Treat. Husbandry & Gardening (rev. ed.) I. 272 The capitated Herbs, or such whose Flower is compos'd of many small, long, hollow Flowers, gather'd together in a round Button Ball or Head. 1840 Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 1837–40 2 242 At least one genus of insects with capitated antennæ (Lucani) employ them as tactors. 1972 Willdenowia Beiheft No. 7. 265 Leptocystidia 40–50 × 6–7 μ, the apical part capitated. 1999 Jrnl. N.Y. Entomol. Soc. 107 79 (caption) Apical subsegment of Ant. IV, showing the capitated sense rod. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † capitatev. Mathematics. Obsolete. rare. transitive. In A. Cayley's symbolical method of calculating semi-invariants: to prefix a digit to (a number) that is greater than or equal to the largest digit in the number. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > indicate with figures [verb (transitive)] > prefix a figure capitate1884 1884 A. Cayley in Amer. Jrnl. Math. 7 10 We capitate a symbol by prefixing to it a number which is not less than the highest number contained in it: thus 552 may be capitated into 5552, 6552, etc. 1886 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 8 112 The complete set of these is obtained by first capitating all the Quintic Syzygies with 4.2 throughout. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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