conduplicate

American  

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

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

Seeds spherical and cotyledons conduplicate, as in Brassica.—Annuals or biennials.

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

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

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

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

The leaves are said to be conduplicate in this case.

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