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

Etymology

Origin of conduplicate

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

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

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

In the Elm, Magnolia, and Tulip-tree, it is conduplicate, that is, folded on the midrib with the inner face within.

From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Jane H. Newell

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

Embryo coiled into a ring around the mealy albumen, when there is any, or else conduplicate, or spiral.—Calyx persistent, mostly enclosing the fruit.

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