toroseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

torose (comparative more torose, superlative most torose)

1. Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences; having the appearance of a knobbly rope.
   • 1832, George Don, A General System of Gardening and Botany, page 373:

     Perhaps the figure in Plum, icon t. 102, f. 1. is referrible to this species, and all the synonymes to the following, but the leaves in our plant are not peltate as int it, the flowers are smaller and the legume is not glabrous nor torose at the seeds, as represented in the figure of Plumier.

   • 1854, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold, Anatomy of the Invertebrata - Volume 1; Volume 1854, page 461:

     With the Carabidae, Hydrocanthari, and Lucanidae, the testicles consist of two extremely long, torose caeca, ( 31 ) of which each is sometimes enclosed in two special envelopes.

   • 1856, Edward Forbes, On the Tertiary Fluvio-marine Formation of the Isle of Wight, page 158:

     Several gradations between the smooth and the torose or embossed forins are to be met with, sometimes even on one hand-specimen of the shales; the most torose variety ( var. torosa, Q. J. G. S. loc. cit. fig. 8) occurs in the buff marl with selenite, eight or nine feet above the Rissoa-bed-weith Planorbis.

   • 1881, Berthold Seemann, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign - Volume 19, page 326:

     A not uncommon state of Lysimachia stricta, without flowers, and bearing concatenate or torose bulblets in the axils, is the original of the Viscum terrestre of Linnæus .

   • 1955, Geological Society of America, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, page 1360:

     The pattern of a torose surface suggests that lower threads of flow sank down into plastic mud which then resisted being carried away.

   • 2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 62:

     In the LV the anterior part of the hinge is developed as a deep, oval, loculate trough which is framed proximally by a torose lip.

派生語

• torosity

アナグラム

• Sooter, Tesoro, ostreo-