biseriate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of biseriate
First recorded in 1845–50; bi- 1 ( def. ) + seriate ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Spikelets are sessile, biseriate, ovate-oblong, 1/8 to 1/6 inch long, 4- to 10-flowered.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Spikelets are 2-flowered, narrow, biseriate, unilateral, imbricate on the rachis of a solitary spike; the rachilla is elongate between the flowering glumes and produced beyond them and terminates in a rudimentary awned glume.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The spikelets are variable in size, 1/12 to 1/6 inch, 3 to 5, rarely 6-flowered, quite glabrous, biseriate, pointing upward at an acute angle with the rachis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Spikelets are unilateral, sessile, crowded, biseriate on a slender rachis with four to six glumes and 1 to 3-flowered; the rachilla is produced and disarticulating above the empty glumes.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The spikelets are unilaterally biseriate on the rachis which is not jointed at the base.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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