caespitose
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- caespitosely adverb
Etymology
Origin of caespitose
C19: from New Latin caespitōsus, from caespitem turf
Example Sentences
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They are annual or perennial herbs, rarely becoming shrubby, and generally growing erect, with a characteristic forked manner of branching; the Asiatic genus Crawfurdia has a climbing stem; they are often low-growing and caespitose, as in the alpine gentians.
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P. irreg., caespitose, smaller than type.
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Caespitose, fleshy-fibrous, fragile, becoming pale.
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Terrestrial, not attached to mosses; rarely caespitose.
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P. conico-campan. exp. umb. fibrillosely scaly then almost glabrous, rufous-umber then pale; g. becoming rusty-olive, edge white-pruinose, becoming rufous spotted; s. fibrillose, subequal, apex glabrous tinged yellow, reddish downwards, spotted reddish when bruised; flesh whitish, base of s. red; sp. 10-12 � 6-7. fasciata, Cke. and Mass. Caespitose.
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