terete

American  

[tuh-reet, ter-eet] / təˈrit, ˈtɛr it /

adjective

1. slender and smooth, with a circular transverse section.

2. cylindrical or slightly tapering.

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terete British  

/ ˈtɛriːt /

adjective

1. (esp of plant parts) smooth and usually cylindrical and tapering

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Other Word Forms

• subterete
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of terete

1610–20; earlier teret < Latin teret- (stem of teres ) smooth and round, akin to terere to rub

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Example Sentences

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terete

Pod terete or teretish; valves 1-nerved; stigma mostly entire.

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

Spikelets terete, few-flowered, the scales, etc., as in the preceding.

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

Achenes terete or ribbed, glabrous, truncate; pappus none or a minute crown.—Branching strong-scented herbs, with finely pinnately dissected leaves and solitary terminal heads; rays white; disk yellow.

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

Pod a short silique or a silicle, varying from oblong-linear to globular, terete or nearly so; valves strongly convex, nerveless.

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

Culm usually hollow, terete; sheaths split to the base.

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

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