conduplicate
Americanadjective
adjective
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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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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 Gray, Asa
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 Gray, Asa
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 Gray, Asa
The leaves are said to be conduplicate in this case.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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 Masters, Maxwell T.
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