campanulate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of campanulate
From the New Latin word campānulātus, dating back to 1660–70. See campanula, -ate 1
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Corolla 4–5-cleft, campanulate, and 4–5-spurred at the base.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Calyx.—With campanulate tube and usually five unequal lobes.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Stem cartilaginous; pileus campanulate, edge straight and adpressed to stem when young.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
The pale flowers, with orange centers, when fully open, roll their petals back to the stem, like those of the leopard-lily; but in cloudy weather they often maintain a campanulate outline.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
MELÒTHRIA, L. Flowers polygamous or monœcious; the sterile campanulate, the corolla 5-lobed; the fertile with the calyx-tube constricted above the ovary, then campanulate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
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