pseudoannualとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From pseudo- +‎ annual.

形容詞

pseudoannual (comparative more pseudoannual, superlative most pseudoannual)

1. Having the appearance of something that occurs annually but not following a strictly annual pattern.
   • 1933 March, Digital Library Of India, Morphology and Anatomy of Mollugo verticillata L., volume XXI, number 12, Lawrence, K.S.: University of Kansas, page 410:

     In the pseudoannual rings of the root, the zones of tracheal tubes are separated from each other by rows of lignified tracheids.

   • 1939, Copeia, page 91:

     Having detected pseudoannual growth zones by the methods already described, an attempt was made to find out how to identify them in nature.

   • 2001, María Lucía Vázquez, Molecular Andmorphological Studies on Mexican Red Oaks (Quercus Sect. Lobatae), page 247:

     A few red oak species have pseudoannual fruit maturation, that is, the fruit appears annual because the branches bearing the fruit did not elongate the following year ( Engelman , 1876-1877 ; Nixon , 1993 ) .

名詞

pseudoannual (複数形 pseudoannuals)

1. A pseudoannual species.
   • 2009 February 10, Kathrin Kirchner; Sabine Kammermeier; Helge Bruelheide, “The response of the pseudoannual species Trientalis europaea L. to forest gap dynamics in a near-natural spruce forest”, in Forest Ecology and Management, volume 257, number 3, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1071:

     These so-called pseudoannual species are characterized by the absence of a persisting shoot system that connects shoots longer than one vegetation period. One of these pseudoannuals is T. europaea.