combining form of Gr. σωλήν channel, pipe, etc., as solenocyte, one of the cells found in the nephridia of certain polychætan worms; solenodon(t, one or other of certain insectivorous mammalian rodents native to the West Indies and America, as the agouta, S. paradoxus, or the almiqui, S. cubanus; solenogyne, solenostelic a., Bot. (see quots.); solenostomatous a., of, belonging to, or resembling the genus Solenostomus of lophobranchiate fishes.
Various other examples, as solenoconch, solenoglyph, solenopharynx, solenostome, etc., are recorded in some recent Dicts.
1902. Encycl. Brit., XXXIII. 882. The blind branches are beset with peculiar cells, the *solenocytes.
1840. Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 80. The *Solenodon … resembles a gigantic Shrew, but with coarse fur.
1871. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., I. 362. The existence of a Solenodon in some of the mountainous parts of the island of Cuba.
1896. Sclater, in Geog. Jrnl., VII. 288. The affinities of which … seem on the whole to approach the Solenodonts.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1071/2. *Solenogyne, a little Australian perennial herb of the Compositæ, now united with Lagenophora under the name L. Solenogyne. In aspect it is very like our own daisy.
1900. B. D. Jackson, Gloss. Bot. Terms, 243/1. *Solenostelic,… having a tubular stele with internal and external phloëm (Jéffrey).
1855. J. Phillips, Man. Geol., 60. According to the ordinary … notion of their food, gasteropodous mollusca with shells may be ranked thus:—Holostomatous phytophaga,… *Solenostomatous zoophaga.
