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形容詞

nonpunctuate (not comparable)

1. Not punctuate.
   • 1962, W[illard] Ralph Singleton, “Glossary”, in Elementary Genetics, Princeton, N.J.: D[avid] Van Nostrand Company, →OCLC, page 456:

     Gaudens (Oenothera). A gene complex characterized by genes for green buds, nonpunctuate leaves, white nerves, broad leaves, and red flecks on the rosette leaves (see Velans).

   • 1969, J[ames] Marvin Weller, “Brachiopods”, in The Course of Evolution (McGraw-Hill Series in Population Biology), New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter 4 (Lophophorate Animals), page 157:

     The similarity of the punctae suggests that all endopunctate forms may be related in their evolutionary origin and that perhaps an endopunctate condition was inherited from a single primitive ancestral stock. Such a possibility seems to be decisively denied, however, because the different groups of endopunctate brachiopods appeared, without exception, later in geologic time than nonpunctuate ones that are practically identical in all other essential features.

   • 1990, Kim Sterelny, “Is Mental Representation Structured?”, in The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction, Oxford, Oxfordshire] Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, published 1991, →ISBN, chapter 8 (Connectionism), pages 180–182:

     If your network can represent X, and if the demands of a ‘nonpunctuate mental life’ require, in your view that Y and Z also be representable, then just dedicate a couple of nodes to those tasks. […] For a punctuate mind is incapable of having some thoughts, including, perhaps, survival and reproduction enhancing ones. So natural selection will tend to build a nonpunctuate mind.

   • 1993, Alwyn H[oward] Gentry, “Flacourtiaceae”, in A Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) […], Washington, D.C.: Conservation International, →ISBN, page 428:

     Casearia (75 spp., plus ca.100 in Old World) — By far the largest and most prevalent genus of Flacourtiaceae, and generally rather nondescript. Mostly subcanopy trees distinguished by evenly serrate, minutely pellucid-punctate leaves (A few species are virtually entire and a few nonpunctuate, but never both).