| 单词 |
spatha |
| 释义 |
‖ spatha|ˈspeɪθə|
Pl. spathæ |-θiː|.
[L. spatha, ad. Gr. σπάθη broad blade, broad flat piece of wood, stem of a palm-leaf, spatula, etc.]
1. Bot. A spathe.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v., The spatha is of very different texture..in different plants. 1760[see spadiceous a. 2]. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 31 A tough ligneous cylindrical stalk..terminated by a conic, reddish purple spatha. 1796Stedman Surinam II. xix. 66 The seed is enclosed in a brownish kind of spatha, that arises from the center of the branches. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 175 Flowers..bursting through an irregularly lacerated spatha. 1850Tyas Favourite Field Fl. Ser. ii. 18 The daffodils were showing their..petals through the transparent spatha.
transf.1834tr. Raspail's Org. Chem. 283 If..we examine a feather..we may..satisfy ourselves, that its tube is formed and grows by means of spathæ, one within another.
2. A flat blade-shaped implement.
1881J. Anderson Scot. in Early Chr. T. Ser. ii. i. 32 At its right side lay an iron knife, a weaver's rubbing-bone, and spatha of whalebone. |
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