phyco-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Seaweed; algae:
表示“海藻；水藻”：
phycology.
藻类学
语源
- Greek phuko-
希腊语 phuko- - from phukos [seaweed]
源自 phukos [海藻]
phyco-
combining form
seaweed
⇒
phycology
Origin
from Greek phukosphyco-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “seaweed,” “algae,” used in the formation of compound words:
phycochrome.
Origin
< Greek phȳko-, combining form representing phŷkos seaweed
Related Words
- phycobiont
- phycocyanin
- phycoerythrin
- phycology
- phycomycete
- schizophyceous
phyco-
combining form
phycology
combining form
ETYMOLOGY Greek phykos seaweed
: algaephycology
phyco-
combining form
- relating to seaweed表示“海藻”, “水藻”：
-
phycology.
词源
from Greek phukos 'seaweed'.
1888 Amer. Naturalist Aug. 671The *Phycochroms never reach as great a size as do members of each of the other sections.
1873 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 221The cultivation of *phycochromaceous gonidia obtained from lichens of a different nature.
1880 Nature 26 Feb. 391/1 Desmideae, Diatomaceae, and phycochromaceous forms furnish no less than 600 out of the total 794 species.
1874 Cooke Fungi 12The green matter originally arises within the primary chlorophyll- or *phycochrom-bearing cellule.
1875 Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs'Bot. 273Certain parasitic Ascomycetes penetrate them ..and often form an intimate attachment with those..cells which contain phycochrome (as Plectospora, Omphalaria). [ certain Algæ]
1866–8 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 633*Phycocyan, and Phycoerythrin, these names are applied by Kützing to a blue and red colouring matter, apparently of the same composition, existing in several red sea-weeds.
1873 H. C. Sorby in Proc. Roy. Soc. XXI. 464Phycocyan gives a spectrum with a well-marked absorption⁓band in the orange, and has a very intense red fluorescence.
1875 Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs'Bot. 216The *phycocyanine is diffused from dead or ruptured cells, and thus produces, for example, the blue stains on the paper round herbarium specimens of Oscillatoriæ.
1881 Watts Dict. Chem. VIII. 1637True *Phycocyanogen, with a distinct absorption-band in the orange, and a narrow one in the red, imparting to the solution a very intense red fluorescence.
1873 H. C. Sorby in Proc. Roy. Soc. XXI. 464*Phycoerythrine Group...I..call one pink phycoerythrine and the other red phycoerythrine. Neither are fluorescent, and both are soluble in water.
1866–8 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 633*Phycohæmatin, a red colouring matter, obtained by Kützing from Rytiplæa tinctoria. It is extracted from the fresh alga.
1892 ( title)*Phycological memoirs, being researches made in the Botanical Department of the British Museum. Edited by George Murray.
1895 J. D. Hooker Let. 9 June in L. Huxley Life J. D. Hooker (1918) II. xli. 294,I have this morning received..a notice published in the ‘Phycological Memoirs’ of Pachytheca, which is enough to turn your hair grey—if it were not so already!
1954 Nature 14 Aug. 294/1 The botanical world, and more especially the phycological section of it, has suffered grievous loss in the passing of Prof. Fritsch.
1973 J. R. Stein ( title)Hand⁓book of phycological methods.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Phycologist.
1901 Nature 14 Feb. 377/1 The great Swedish phycologist.
1951 G. W. Prescott in G. M. Smith Man. Phycology i. 4The marine phycologist Harvey..established many genera.
1969 Brit. PhycologicalJrnl. IV. 141Virtually the whole of his career as a phycologist was devoted to diatoms. [ sc. Hustedt's]
1847 J. Lindley Elem. Bot. (ed. 5) p. lxx/2*Phycology. That part of Botany which treats of Sea⁓weeds.
1892 Nation ( N.Y. ) 10 Nov. 360/3Algology, another hybrid, is honored with a definition..while Phycology, the preferable word linguistically, is given only as a synonym.
1935 J. E. Tilden Algae p. v,Phycology offers an enormously stimulating field for research.
1951 G. W. Prescott in G. M. Smith Man. Phycology i. 1The history of phycology is as old as the history of botany.
1976 Biol. Abstr. LXI. 6112/1The history of marine phycology in New England (USA) is summarized, followed by citations emphasizing recent research dealing with the local marine algal vegetation.
1842 Brande Dict. Sci. , etc.,*Phycomater, the gelatine in which the sporules of Algaceous plants first vegetate.
1858 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Phycomater, term for a single cell resting on semi-liquid substance, possessing the power of producing other cells similar to itself in form and composition out of the organic subtances in which it grows.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Phycomycetous.
1900 Nature 27 Sept. 540/1 The phycomycetous Fungi, and the siphonaceous Algæ..the vegetative body of which does not consist of cells.
1885 G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. (1892) 295Analogous pigments extracted by water from algae of colors other than red have received the following names,—*phycophæine (brownish), phycocyanine (bluish), phycoxanthine (yellowish-brown).
1898 tr. Strasburger'sBot. 330The cells of the Phæophyceæ..contain a brown pigment, phycophæin.
1972 J. D. Pickett-Heaps in Cytobios V. 63Since this disposition of microtubules is so common in algae, I have coined the term ‘*phycoplast’ to describe it. This implies that it can to some extent be considered an analogue of the higher plant cell phragmoplast, but its main distinguishing feature is the orientation of its constituent microtubules in the plane of cytoplasmic cleavage.
1975 Nature 6 Nov. 32/1 The unicellular condition, the possession of basal bodies, flagella, a closed centric spindle, a phycoplast and cell division by furrowing, are deemed to be primitive features.
1873 H. C. Sorby in Proc. Roy. Soc. XXI. 457*Phycoxanthine. This name was first proposed by Kraus for a substance he obtained from Oscillatoriæ.
1875 Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs'Bot. 216The peculiar bluish- or brownish-green colour which the Nostocaceæ share with the Chroococcaceæ, is caused by a mixture of true chlorophyll with phycoxanthine and phycocyanine.
phyco-
word-forming element in science meaning "seaweed, algae," from Latinized comb. form of Greek phykos "seaweed, sea wrack."
phyco-
combining form
see phyc-
see phyc-
phyco-
Prefix
- Forming compound words pertaining to seaweed or algae.
Etymology
From combining form of Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”).
Derived terms
English words prefixed with phyco-