1880 Günther Fishes xiii. 177The majority of Teleostei are mixogamous—that is, the males and females congregate on the spawning-beds, and..several males attend to the same female, frequently changing from one female to another.
1881 Athenæum 15 Jan. 97 Chapter xiii with..mixogamy, polygamy..as occurring amongst fishes. [ of Günther's Study of Fishes deals]
1959 Archivio di Oceanogr. eLimnol. XI.Suppl. 243At the final session of the Venice Symposium a revised classification of marine waters according to salinity was adopted and recommended for universal application... The term ‘brackish’, as a classificatory term, was avoided because of its ambiguous meaning and the term ‘mixo⁓haline’ was proposed to indicate diluted sea water.
1969 G. Vevers tr. Friedrich's MarineBiol. vii. 419Waters with intermediate salinities are known as brackish or mixohaline.
1946 E. S. Goodrich in Q.Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. LXXXVI. 119When, as in the majority of Polychaeta, the coelomostome is so completely fused to the inner end of the nephridium as to form an apparently simple large-funnelled organ..it may be called a mixonephridium... This new name is proposed to draw attention to the difference between these two kinds of organ (the metanephridium, and the compound nephromixial organ).
1963 Mixonephridium . [ see cœlomo-]
1972 M. S. Gardiner Biol. Invertebr. xiii. 505/2In a mixonephridium, the nephrostome has presumably become occluded and lost.
1958 G. A. Kerkut Borradaile & Potts's Invertebrata (ed. 3) viii. 287Mixonephrium. The coelomoduct is so closely associated with the nephridium that they form an apparently simple funnelled organ.
1876 Mixoscope . [ see mixer 2]
1939 G. R. Scott Encycl. Sex 200/2Mixoscopia or mixoscopy, the securing of sexual orgasm or excitation as a result of seeing human beings or animals engaged in copulation.
1940 Hinsie & Shatzky PsychiatricDict. 350/2Mixoscopia, a form of sexual perversion, deriving pleasure from watching the act of coition between the desired one and another person.
1903 Alienist & Neurologist May 167 Mixoscopic.
1905 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex iv. 188Founded on the sense of vision also we find a phenomenon, bordering on the abnormal, which is by Moll named mixoscopy. This means the sexual pleasure derived from the spectacle of other persons engaged in natural or perverse sexual actions.
mixo-
word-forming element meaning "mixed," from Greek mixo-, from mixis "a mixing, mingling, intercourse," from root of mignynai "to mix, mix up, mingle" (see mix, v.). E.g. Mixolydian.
ORIGIN: Repr. Greek mixo- , from base of mignunai to mix (cf. mix verb ): see -o- .
mixo-
combining form
Etymology: Greek, from mixis act of mingling or mixing
1. : mixed
< mixotrophic >
< mixochimaera >
2. : mixture of isomers of (a specified compound)
< mixooctane >
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