conduplicate

American  

[kon-doo-pli-kit, -dyoo-] / kɒnˈdu plɪ kɪt, -ˈdju- /

adjective

Botany.

1. (of a leaf in the bud) folded lengthwise with the upper face of the blade within.

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conduplicate British  

/ kɒnˈdjuːplɪkɪt /

adjective

1. botany folded lengthways on itself

   conduplicate leaves in the bud

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Other Word Forms

• conduplication
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of conduplicate

1770–80; < Latin conduplicātus (past participle of conduplicāre to double), equivalent to con- con- + duplicātus duplicate

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Example Sentences

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conduplicate

Spikelets crowded into a leafy-involucrate head, laterally flattened, the scales more or less conduplicate and keeled.

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

Another filament bore just above the usual joint three leaflets, two lateral ones, somewhat conduplicate, and a third central one, half anther, half leaflet.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters

Scales imbricated somewhat in 2 ranks, more or less conduplicate or boat-shaped, keeled, white or whitish.

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

In these cases the cotyledons are plane; but they may be folded upon themselves and round the radicle, as in Mustard, where they are conduplicate, thus o>>.

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

When the leaves are conduplicate the shoots are more or less compressed.

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

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