teliferousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• 韻: -ɪfəɹəs

形容詞

teliferous (not comparable)

1. (zoology, obsolete) Having nematocysts or stinging cells.
   • 1883 July, Charles Ashford, “The Darts of British Helicidæ: Part I., Introductory”, in Journal of Conchology, volume IV, number 3, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Taylor Bros, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 70:

     The occurring British forms, though varying much in proportion and contour, fall naturally into four groups, marked by the respective characteristics of (1) One simple sac; (2) A single bi-lobed sac; (3) Two simple teliferous sacs; (4) Two sacs, each bi-lobed (fig. 3).

   • 1890, Edmund Gosse, The Life of Philip Henry Gosse F.R.S., London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., page 290:

     The introduction, a minute description of the organization of the sea-anemones, and in particular of their unique and extraordinary "teliferous" system, has been regarded as the most sustained piece of original writing of a technically scientific character which Philip Gosse has left behind him.

   • 1921 December 8, John W. Taylor, “Part 24”, in Monograph of the Land & Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles, Leeds, West Yorkshire: Taylor Bros., Publishers, page 115:

     Internally, it stands absolutely alone amongst our teliferous British species in possessing paired darts or gypsobela within what is now a practically simple though distally bifid stylophore or dart-sac.

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参照

• “teliferous, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Teliferous”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume IX, Part 2 (Su–Th), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 152, column 3.