cespitose

American  

[ses-pi-tohs] / ˈsɛs pɪˌtoʊs /

Or caespitose

adjective

Botany.

1. forming mats; growing in dense tufts.

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cespitose British  

/ ˈsɛspɪˌtəʊs /

adjective

1. a variant spelling (esp US) of caespitose

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Other Word Forms

• cespitosely
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of cespitose

1785–95; < New Latin cespitōsus, equivalent to Latin cēspit- (stem of cēspes, variant of caespes turf ) + -ōsus -ose ¹

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Example Sentences

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cespitose

Bulbs cespitose, narrowly oblong and crowning a rhizome; coats membranous.

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 Asa Gray

Differs from the variety of n. 69 chiefly in its more cespitose habit, its densely glaucous-blue covering, very slender culm, and very long and filiform peduncles.

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 Asa Gray

Low and glabrous, mostly cespitose perennials, with pinnately compound leaves and white flowers.

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 Asa Gray

Stems short, cespitose, creeping or ascending, subsimple, with numerous offshoots; leaf-lobes broadly ovate, entire, mostly obtuse and apiculate; involucral leaves sometimes denticulate; perianth small, subcuneate, entire.

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 Asa Gray

I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

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