chartaceous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of chartaceous
First recorded in 1645–55, chartaceous is from the Latin word chartāceus made of papyrus. See charta, -aceous
Example Sentences
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Glumes 2, chartaceous, strongly flattened laterally or conduplicate, awnless, bristly-ciliate on the keels, closed, nearly equal in length, but the lower much broader, enclosing the flat grain.
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The spikelet nearly always consists of four glumes, the first or the first and the second being firmer and coriaceous or chartaceous.
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It has always seemed to me, Madam, that that same jaw-bone must have been either prodigiously strong and tough, or else the Philistine crania must have been of very chartaceous texture.
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The second glume is chartaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved and with a smooth rounded keel.
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The fourth glume is chartaceous, shining, smooth ovate-oblong, apex cuspidate, with a few hairs on the edges at the apex, faintly 5-nerved.
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