| 单词 |
seminiform |
| 释义 |
seminiform, a. Bot. rare.|sɪˈmɪnɪfɔːm| [Formed as seminific a.: see -form.] Having the form of seeds. †a. seminiform attire, a name given by Grew to the stamens. See attire n. 8. Obs.
1676Grew Anat. Pl. i. v. §13 (1682) 37 The Attire, I find to be of two kinds, Seminiforme, and Florid. Ibid. iv. ii. iii. 167 That sort of Attire, which may be called Seminiform, being usually, as it were, a little sheaf of seed-like Particles, standing on so many Pedicills, as the Ear doth upon the End of the Straw. b. Bory's epithet for the reproductive bodies of Fungi, Polypi, Confervæ, and other vegetable or animal organisms which have no specialized generative organs.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex. s.v. Seminiformis. |

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