chartaceous

American  

[kahr-tey-shuhs] / kɑrˈteɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. of or like paper; papery.

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Etymology

Origin of chartaceous

First recorded in 1645–55, chartaceous is from the Latin word chartāceus made of papyrus. See charta, -aceous

Example Sentences

Rudiment of second flower wanting; glumes and palet rather chartaceous, compressed-keeled; flowering glume 1-nerved, entirely awnless; palet strongly 2-keeled; panicle at length open and loose.

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 first glume is chartaceous, linear oblong, many-nerved, shortly bifid at the apex, longer than the other glumes.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The first glume is chartaceous, laterally compressed, obscurely 4-nerved, glabrous below, hispid near the apex, minutely 2-toothed or not at the apex, not awned or rarely with a short awn.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

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.

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 fourth glume is ellipsoidal, obtuse, chartaceous, minutely and obscurely rugulose, faintly 3-nerved, with the base somewhat thickened.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.