| 单词 |
Peziza |
| 释义 |
‖ Peziza Bot.|pɪˈzaɪzə|
[mod.L. (Dillenius); cf. L. pezica or pezita, f. Gr. πέζις a stalkless mushroom.]
A large genus of discomycetous fungi, of cup-like or saucer-like shape, and often of brilliant colour, growing on the ground or on decaying wood, etc.; various species are called cup-mushrooms, fairy-cups, etc.
[1623Cockeram, Pezite, a Mushrompe. 1706Phillips, Pezica, a sort of Mushroom.] 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 55 The yellow hairy sessile Peziza. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 126 This beautiful little peziza adheres by a claw at the base to the putrid stems of decayed plants in moist places near rills of water. Ibid. 361 In its young state it is truly Peziza-like, and very beautiful.
Hence peˈziziform (erron. -æform), peˈzizoid adjs., of the form of or resembling a Peziza.
1857Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. 199 A pezizæform body figured by Greville. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 17 Pileus deflexed even from the first, not pezizoide. |
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