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

A. réptans, L. Perennial, about 1° high, with copious creeping stolons; leaves obovate or spatulate, sometimes sinuate, the cauline sessile, the floral approximate, subtending several sessile blue flowers.—Naturalized near Saco, Maine, Montreal, etc.

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Linn�us, Flora Suecica, 789, says that the flowers of it which have perfect corolla and full scent often bear no seed, but that the later 'cauline' blossoms, without petals, are fertile.

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The cauline leaves are stalked and diverge widely, which habit gives its name to the plant.

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Stouter and more rigid, leaves of radical shoots thicker, linear, hoary, the cauline puberulent or glabrous, calyx canescent.

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Dry drupe greenish, with 3–5 cartilaginous nutlets.—A dwarf perennial herb with scaly rootstock and ternately divided leaves, the cauline a single pair.

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