phyto- 或 phyt-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Plant:
表示“植物”：
phytogenesis.
植物进化
语源
- New Latin
现代拉丁语 - from Greek phuto-
源自 希腊语 phuto- - from phuton [plant]
源自 phuton [植物] - from phuein [to make grow] * see bheuə-
源自 phuein [使生长] *参见 bheuə-
phyto- or (before a vowel) phyt-
combining form
indicating a plant or vegetation
⇒
phytogenesis
Origin
from Greek phuton plant, from phuein to make growphyto-
Word Origin
1
a combining form meaning “plant,” used in the formation of compound words:
phytogenesis.
Also, -phyte.
Origin
< Greek phyt(ón) a plant + -o-
Related Words
- phytophthora
- -phyte
- phytoalexin
- phytobiology
- phytochemistry
- phytochrome
phyto-a word element meaning 'plant'.
Also, (before vowels), phyt-. [Greek, combining form of phyton plant]
phyto-
combining form
⇨ see phyt-
combining form
⇨ see phyt-
phyto-
combining form
- of a plant; relating to plants表示“植物的”, “与植物有关的”：
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phytogeography.
词源
from Greek phuton 'a plant', from phuein 'come into being'.
1931 R. N. Chapman AnimalEcol. xvi. 333The *phytobenthos is along the shore or in the littoral region.
1964 Oceanogr. & MarineBiol. II. 127 (caption)Other organisms listed include zooplankton, phytobenthos, zoobenthos, and fishes.
1973 Nature 6 Apr. 415/2 The rates of..photosyntheses of phytoplankton and phytobenthos..have been made using carbon-14. [ sic]
1887 Athenæum 26 Feb. 292/3 Sir J. Lubbock read the second part of his *phytobiological observations.
1890 Ibid. 1 Mar. 278/3There remains a large collection of memoirs on general botany and *phyto-biology.
1858 Mayne Expos. Lex. 959/1*Phytochemical.
1877 Chem. News 4 May 185/1 (heading)On phyto-chemical processes.
1921 Experiment Station Rec. XLIII. 820 (heading)Phytochemical investigations on indigenous and naturalized plants.
1972 Nature 21 Jan. 134/1 The joint meeting of the Phytochemical Society and the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain on plant constituents of pharmacological interest.
1972 Science 9 June 1131/2 Schultes has repeatedly suggested that these additional ‘peyote’ cacti be examined *phytochemically.
1969 H. Erdtman in Harborne & Swain Perspectives in Phytochem. v. 109That symposium was important because it brought together scientists of different specializations, botanical taxonomists, *phytochemists and chemists interested in biosynthetic problems.
1972 Nature 28 Apr. 469/2 The contributors are leading specialists in umbellifer taxonomy..together with many other scarcely less eminent systematists and phytochemists.
1837 Phil. Mag. X. 247 (heading)A report of the progress of *phytochemistry in the year 1835.
1866 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 636Phytochemistry, the Chemistry of Plants. The most comprehensive treatise on this subject is that of Rochleder, published at Leipzig in 1854.
1912 Carnegie Inst. YearBk. 49The chief problems of the Department have been taken to lie in the domain of phyto-chemistry, in the water-relations of plants, and in the environic reactions of organisms.
1968 Jrnl. Chromatogr. XXXVI. 22Methods for the separation and identification of microquantities of phenolic glycosides are of great importance for work in phytochemistry, pharmacognosy and chemotaxonomy.
1866 Treas. Bot. ,*Phytochlore, green colouring matter; chlorophyll.
1881 H. C. Lewis in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. XX. 117*Phytocollite.
1968 Tetrahedron Lett. July 3883Four additional *phytoecdysones have now been isolated from the leaves . Interestingly, these new phytoecdysones..have steroid skeletons with 28 and 29 carbon atoms. [ of Podocarpus macrophyllus]
1974 Hikino & Takemoto in W. J. Burdette Invertebr. Endocrinol. ii. 187The occurrence of phytoecdysones in plants raises the question whether they have any beneficial or adverse effects on the plants themselves or on the phytophagous animals in their natural habitat... The leaves of Morus species and Podocarpus macrophyllus which are known to contain considerable amounts of phytoecdysones, are food of the larvae of the moths, Bombyx mori and Milionia vasalis pryeri, respectively.
1978 Nature 9 Mar. 122/1 The generic term ‘phytoecdysones’ should be abandoned.
1947 Palestine Jrnl. Bot. IV. 14Prymnesium parvum Carter is a *phytoflagellate belonging to the order of the Chrysomonadales, differing from other members of this order in the presence of an immobile spine-like third flagellum, a feature unique among phytoflagellates.
1951 Hutner & Provasoli in A. Lwoff et al. Biochem. &Physiol. Protozoa I. 29The phytoflagellates are a heterogeneous group occupying a systematic position at intersections of plant and animal lines of descent.
1957 New Biol. XXIII. 93This phytoflagellate was first blamed for mass fish mortality in Holland and later in Denmark. [ sc. Prymnesium parvum]
1973 M. A. Sleigh Biol. Protozoa i. 2The cell possesses the basic components of a phytoflagellate, including flagella, nucleus, plastid,..and other..inclusions.
1864 Webster, *Phytoglyphic,..relating to phytoglyphy. *Phytoglyphy,.. the art of printing from nature, by taking impressions from plants, or other objects.
1855 E. R. Lankester Macgillivray'sNat. Hist. Dee Side & Braemar 63This risk incurred for the mere chance of finding a few rare plants..one can hardly designate it by any other name than *Phytomania.
1866 Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 636*Phytomelin or Plant-yellow. A name proposed by W. Stein for rutin, on account of its wide diffusion in the vegetable kingdom.
1961 Marshall & Capon in Lancet 8 July 104/1We suggest that until more is known about their structure, factors extracted from plants which exhibit mitogenic activity, be referred to as *phytomitogens.
1964 Ibid. 21 Nov. 1101/1These observations suggest that the distribution of ‘phytomitogens’ in the plant kingdom may be more widespread than is recognised.
1974 Jrnl. Exper. Med. CXXXIX. 1553The lymphocyte response to phytomitogens is generally considered to be nonspecific.
1926 G. N. Calkins Biol. Protozoa v. 279*Phytomonads with a bivalve shell, or at least a membrane which splits easily to form two lens-like halves, as in Phacotus lenticularis.
1953 R. P. Hall Protozool. iv. 151Lipids, although usually not abundant, are stored by many phytomonads.
1961 R. D. Manwell Introd. Protozool. xiv. 174Most of the phytomonads are rather small, roundish forms.
1864 Webster, *Phytonomy.
1883 Science 6 Apr. 252 The nature of some impressions described by *phytopaleontologists as remains of fossil Algæ.
Ibid. 253The evidence..renders great service to *phytopaleontology.
1889 Cent. Dict. ,*Phytopathological.
1909 B. M. Duggar FungousDis. Plants 4The foundations were laid for a more careful study of the fungi from a phytopathological point of view.
1959 Ann. Rev. Microbiol. XIII. 224The term ‘toxin’, in the phytopathological literature, is used in the general sense of a poisonous substance generated by the pathogen regardless of its chemical nature.
1962 W. Carter Insects in Relation to PlantDis. p. vii,There..has been a growing awareness of the toxicogenic insect as a phytopathological agent.
1886 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. ,*Phytopathologist.
1893 E. A. Ormerod in Autobiog. &Corr. xx. (1904) 218One of our leading European Phytopathologists.
1917 J. W. Harshberger Text-bk. Mycol. & PlantPath. xxiii. 271A study of phytopathology..presupposes that the would-be phytopathologist is acquainted with plant morphology, systematic botany..histology, cytology, embryology, genetics, physiology, . [ etc.]
1958 Austral. Jrnl. Biol. Sci. XI. 275The problem of disease resistance in plants has exercised the minds of phytopathologists for more than half a century.
1864 Webster, *Phytopathology,..an account of diseases to which plants are liable.
1891 Vet. Jrnl. XXXII. 253Phytopathology afforded many instances of local death of a part produced by the parasite.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 754/2‘Phytopathology’ or plant pathology..comprises our knowledge of the symptoms, course, causes and remedies of the maladies which threaten the life of plants, or which result in abnormalities of structure that are regarded, whether directly injurious or not to life, as unsightly or undesirable... As a branch of botanical study it is of recent date.
1976 Nature 12 Feb. 449/1 A large proportion of the money devoted to agricultural research in the UK is spent on phytopathology and crop protection and has enabled the production of virus-free and disease-resistant crops.
1880 Nature 12 Feb. 364/1 On the method and data of *phyto-phylogenetic research.
1854 H. Spencer in Brit. Q.Rev. July 115Biology, Organosophy, Phytogeny, *Phyto-physiology, Phytology.
1892 Poulton in Trans. Entom. Soc. X. 294The effect cannot be phytophagic in the strict sense of the word, but rather *phytoscopic, inasmuch as the colour of the surface of the leaf rather than its substance acts as the stimulus.
1730–6 Bailey (folio), *Phytoscopy,..a viewing and contemplating or considering plants.
1854 H. Spencer in Brit. Q.Rev. July 115He says..‘Biology, there⁓fore, divides into Organogeny, *Phytosophy, Zoosophy’. [ Oken]
1881 Watts Dict. Chem. VIII. ii. 1624*Phytosterin, C26H4O... A neutral substance, identical or homologous with cholesterin, obtained from Calabar beans by extraction with petroleum⁓ether.
1897 Naturalist 47 Various higher alcohols and phytosterin being present therein as bases.
1883 L. F. Ward DynamicSociol. I. 120*Phytotaxy.
1898 tr. Strasburger'sBot. i. 154The study of the abnormal development of plants is called *Phytoteratology.
phyto-
word-forming element meaning "plant," from Greek phyton "plant," literally "that which has grown," from phyein "to grow" (see physic).
ORIGIN: from Greek phuton plant, from phu- be -o-
phyto-
combining form. a plant; plants: Phytotoxic = toxic to plants. Also, phyt- before vowels.
[< Greek phýton plant]
phyto-
combining form
see phyt-
see phyt-
phyto-
Prefix
- Pertaining to or derived from plants.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phutón, “plant”).
Related terms
Derived terms
English words prefixed with phyto-