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

Etymology

Origin of cespitose

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

Example Sentences

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 Gray, Asa

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 Atkinson, George Francis

The stem is subequal, cespitose, reticulate to the base, pulverulent below.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

Stamens 3.—Low cespitose annuals; spike often scarcely exserted from the upper sheath.

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

The cespitose masses are often a foot broad.

From North American Species of Cactus by Coulter, John Merle