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aquarium (n.)[aquarium 词源字典]: 1830, noun use of neuter of Latin aquarius "pertaining to water," as a noun, "water-carrier," genitive of aqua "water" (see aqua-). The word existed in Latin, but there it meant "drinking place for cattle." Originally especially for growing aquatic plants; An earlier attempt at a name for "fish tank" was marine vivarium.[aquarium etymology, aquarium origin, 英语词源]
aerenchyma: "A soft plant tissue containing air spaces, found especially in many aquatic plants", Late 19th century: from Greek aēr 'air' + enkhuma 'infusion'.
hapteron: "An organ of attachment in certain aquatic plants, algae, fungi, and lichens; especially the holdfast of an alga or each of the rootlike branches into which the holdfast may be divided", Late 19th cent.; earliest use found in Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society. From scientific Latin haptera, plural, irregularly from ancient Greek ἅπτειν to fasten, after Danish hapterer, plural, German Hapteren, plural.