conduplicate

American  

[kon-doo-pli-kit, -dyoo-] / kɒnˈdu plɪ kɪt, -ˈdyu- /

adjective

Botany.

1. (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.

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conduplicate British  

/ kɒnˈdjuːplɪkɪt /

adjective

1. botany folded lengthways on itself

   conduplicate leaves in the bud

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Other Word Forms

• conduplication noun

Etymology

Origin of conduplicate

1770–80; < Latin conduplicātus (past participle of conduplicāre to double), equivalent to con- con- + duplicātus duplicate

Example Sentences

Embryo coiled into a ring around the mealy albumen, when there is any, or else conduplicate, or spiral.—Calyx persistent, mostly enclosing the fruit.

From Project Gutenberg

Ovaries 3, globular, slightly united at base, 2–3 ovuled, bearing flat sessile stigmas, in fruit forming 3 diverging and inflated 1–2 seeded pods, opening along the inside.—A low bog-herb, with a creeping jointed rootstock, tapering into the ascending simple stem, which is zigzag, partly sheathed by the bases of the grass-like conduplicate leaves, and terminated by a loose raceme of a few flowers, with sheathing bracts; leaves tubular at the apex.

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Spikelets crowded into a leafy-involucrate head, laterally flattened, the scales more or less conduplicate and keeled.

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Scales imbricated somewhat in 2 ranks, more or less conduplicate or boat-shaped, keeled, white or whitish.

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Glumes 2, chartaceous, strongly flattened laterally or conduplicate, awnless, bristly-ciliate on the keels, closed, nearly equal in length, but the lower much broader, enclosing the flat grain.

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