cauline

American  

[kaw-lin, -lahyn] / ˈkɔ lɪn, -laɪn /

adjective

Botany.

1. of or relating to a stem, especially pertaining to or arising from the upper part of a stem.

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cauline British  

/ ˈkɔːlɪn, -laɪn /

adjective

1. relating to or growing from a plant stem

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Etymology

Origin of cauline

1750–60; < Latin caul ( is ) a stalk, stem + -ine ¹

Example Sentences

Involucral leaves larger than the cauline; perianth laterally compressed, erect or decurved, obliquely truncate and bilabiate, the lobes entire or ciliate-dentate.

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

Involucral leaves like the cauline but more equally lobed; perianth obovate, dorsally compressed, bilabiate, the mouth truncate, entire or toothed, decurved.

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

Involucral leaves 4 or fewer, like the cauline or more incised, free; perianth laterally compressed or terete, usually 3–10-carinate, the usually small mouth entire or toothed.

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

A more or less modified leaf subtending a flower or belonging to an inflorescence, or sometimes cauline.

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

Slender, lax, diffuse, 6–12´ high, with loose inflorescence, and almost filiform branches and peduncles; cauline leaves all linear, hardly over 1´´ wide.—S. E. Ohio to Va., N. C., and Tenn. Var. calycòsa, Gray.

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