subfloralとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

sub- +‎ floral

形容詞

sub-floral (not comparable)

1. (botany) Alternative form of subfloral
   • 1869, Maxwell Tylden Masters, Vegetable Teratology:

     In some flowers, such as Convolvulus, Anemone, &c., the exact nature of the sub-floral leaves is uncertain, 110. it is open to doubt whether the organs in question are bracts or leaves pertaining to the inflorescence, or whether they are really parts of the flower.

   • 1882, Julius Sachs & ‎Sydney Howard Vines, Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical, page 540:

     In Malope Irifida, for example, the three parts of the epicalyx represent a sub-floral bract with its two stipules ; in Kitaibelia viti/olia, the six-parted epicalyx consists (according to Payer) of two such sub-floral leaves with their four stipules.

   • 1940, Henry Weston Blaser, The Morphology of the Flowers and the Inflorescences of the Cyperaceae:

     Pax (1385) had considered Ascolepis as possessing a pair of sub-floral bractlets fused dorsally.

   • 1988, CIBA Foundation Symposium, Plant Resistance to Viruses, ISBN 0471912638, page 193:

     A combination of the 'agroinfection' maize streak construct and their sub-floral injection technique might enable one to take the transformation to seed.

2. Not quite floral.
   • 1974, Stores - Volume 56, page 11:

     Color is used sparingly and in sub-floral arrangements added in pots and planters.

   • 1986, Jordan. Dāʼirat al-Āthār al-ʻĀmmah, Annual of the Department of Antiquities - Volume 30, page 172:

     Above the veneer was painted plaster, with decorations of geometric architectural and sub-floral motifs in green, yellow, red and black on white ground — non-figurative subjects be it noted.

   • 2007, D.W. Harding, The Archaeology of Celtic Art, ISBN 1134264631:

     But its ornamentation is simpler than some of the latter, being a series of relief elements of sub-floral design arranged repetitively around the entire circumference, very like one of the gold torcs from Fenouilletin the Haute-Garonne (Jacobsthal,1944, no. 62).