different between axis vs cormophyte

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?æks?s/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?æks?s/
• Hyphenation: ax?is

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin axis (“axle, axis”) in the 16th century.

Noun

axis (plural axes)

1. (geometry) An imaginary line around which an object spins (an axis of rotation) or is symmetrically arranged (an axis of symmetry).

2. (mathematics) A fixed one-dimensional figure, such as a line or arc, with an origin and orientation and such that its points are in one-to-one correspondence with a set of numbers; an axis forms part of the basis of a space or is used to position and locate data in a graph (a coordinate axis)
3. (anatomy) The second cervical vertebra of the spine

   Synonym: epistropheus

4. (psychiatry) A form of classification and descriptions of mental disorders or disabilities used in manuals such as the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
5. (botany) The main stem or central part about which organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged

Coordinate terms

• (cervical vertebra): atlas

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin, name of an Indian animal mentioned by the Roman senator Pliny.

Noun

axis (plural axises)

1. Axis axis, a deer native to Asia.

   Synonyms: chital, cheetal, chital deer, spotted deer, axis deer

Translations

See also

• Chital on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Axis axis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *aksis, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?s-i-s, from *h?e?s- (“axis, axle”); see also Lithuanian ašis (“axle”), Sanskrit ???? (ák?a, “axis, axle, balance beam”), Ancient Greek ???? (áx?n, “axle”), Old High German ahsa (“axle”), Icelandic eax, öxull, öksull, Old English eaxl (whence English axle).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ak.sis/, [?äks??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.sis/, [??ksis]

Noun

axis m (genitive axis); third declension

1. An axletree of wagon, car, chariot.
2. The North Pole.
3. The heavens or a region or clime of these.
4. A board, plank.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• axis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• axis in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• axis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• axis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• axis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• axis in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Langenscheidt Pocket Latin Dictionary

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kormós, “trunk stripped of its boughs”) +? -phyte; see also corm (“swollen underground stem”), Latin cormus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m??fa?t/

Noun

cormophyte (plural cormophytes)

1. (now informal, botany) Any plant having a proper stem or axis of growth, which is distinct from its leaves, phyllophyte
   • 1940, Edgar Nelson Transeau, Homer Cleveland Sampson, Lewis Hanford Tiffany, Textbook of botany, Part 1, page 156,

     Very careful developmental or anatomical investigation may be required to show that the variously-constructed organs of many cormophytes are derived by the metamorphosis of the three primary organs, root, stem, and leaf, and to ascertain with which of these any particular structure is really homologous.

   • 2008, Giulia Caneva, Maria Pia Nugari, M. P. Nugari, O. Salvadori (editors), Plant Biology for Cultural Heritage: Biodeterioration and Conservation, page 91,

     The morphology of cormophytes exhibits considerable variations in size, appearance of the various parts, and duration of the life cycle.

Coordinate terms

• thallophyte

Derived terms

• cormophytic

Anagrams

• chromotype, ectomorphy