| 单词 |
floristic |
| 释义 |
floristic, a. and n.|fləˈrɪstɪk|
[f. flora: see -istic.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the study of plants with reference to their distribution.
B. n. pl. That branch of phytogeography which deals with the distribution and abundance of plants. So floˈristically adv.
1898Pound & Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska p. iii, The authors..directed the work of the Survey with a view to..a report,.. in which the floral covering of the state should be treated from the phytogeographical stand⁓point, and a series of monographs dealing with it from a floristic standpoint. Ibid. v. 215 Phytogeography..dealing not only with floristic and distribution, but..with morphology, histology, and ecology as well. 1909Groom & Balfour tr. Warming's Oecol. Plants 1 Floristic plant-geography is concerned with—1. The compilation of a ‘Flora’, that is, a list of species growing within a larger or smaller area... 2. The division of the earth's surface into natural floristic tracts..according to their affinities... 3. The sub-division of the larger natural floristic tracts—floristic kingdoms—into smaller natural tracts. Ibid. 145 Grassy surfaces lining a railway differ floristically according to the aspect. 1918L. Huxley Life J. D. Hooker II. 414 This great floristic work was fitly rounded off by his completion of the ‘Ceylon Flora’. 1928V. G. Childe Most Anc. East iii. 50 To find a floristic and faunistic environment comparable to that encountered by the most ancient Egyptians one must travel far upstream into the monsoon zone. 1964V. J. Chapman Coastal Veget. i. 9 On the Continent, another system of vegetation analysis is employed. This is based essentially on floristics. 1969Nature 29 Nov. 846/2 The floristic and faunistic richness of old grasslands. 1970Watsonia VIII. 99 Hundreds of plants of this fairly distinct species being scattered over a large area of otherwise floristically rather poor rock. |
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