| 释义 |
pulvinated, a.|ˈpʌlvɪneɪtɪd|
[as prec. + -ed.]
1. Arch. Swelling or bulging; especially applied to a frieze having a convex face.
1773J. Noorthouck Hist. London 598 It has the pulvinated or swelling freeze. 1817Rickman Archit. (1848) 30 It was once the custom to work the Ionic frieze projecting like a torus... When thus formed it is called pulvinated. 1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 281 The curvilinear, or pulvinated frieze occurs in not a single Grecian example. 1850J. Leitch tr. C. O. Müller's Anc. Art §223 (ed. 2) 219 The shaft either diminished in a right line or pulvinated.
2. Bot. Having a pulvinus.
1880C. & F. Darwin Movem. Pl. 113 With pulvinated leaves (i.e. those provided with a pulvinus) their periodical movements depend..on the cells of the pulvinus alternately expanding more quickly on one side than on the other.
3. Entom. = pulvinate a.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex. Pulvinatus{ddd}Entomol. Applied by Kirby to the prothorax when, being depressed at one point, it appears swoln out at another..: pulvinated. |
