ligulate
Americanadjective
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having the shape of a strap
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biology of, relating to, or having a ligule or ligula
Etymology
Origin of ligulate
Example Sentences
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P. 1 cm. ligulate, ascending, silky, not zoned; g. fold-like, tumid, distant, forked; s. short, pruinose; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Those of the circumference are ligulate and ordinarily unisexual, without stamens.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
On the other hand, were the ligulate florets to be all replaced by tubular ones, the term peloria would be more strictly applicable.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
In what are erroneously called double flowers in this order, e.g. in the Chrysanthemum, Dahlia, &c. &c., the florets are all ligulate.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Rays present; i.e. the marginal flowers or some of them with ligulate corollas.
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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