terete
Americanadjective
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slender and smooth, with a circular transverse section.
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cylindrical or slightly tapering.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of terete
1610–20; earlier teret < Latin teret- (stem of teres ) smooth and round, akin to terere to rub
Example Sentences
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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
Pod coriaceous, stipitate, terete, more or less constricted between the seeds, indehiscent.
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
Style 3-cleft; spikelets narrow, terete or nearly so, few–many-flowered, the scales closely appressed and the broad wings of the jointed rhachis enclosing the triangular achene.
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
Flowers in corymbed clusters; calyx terete; petals crowned with an appendage at the top of the claw; leaves oval-lanceolate.—Roadsides, etc.
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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