muricate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of muricate
1655–65; < Latin mūricātus like a murex, equivalent to mūric- (stem of mūrex ) murex + -ātus -ate 1
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Fruiting bracts with margins often dilated and sides often muricate.
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
A. pertusus.Racemes many and whorled in the panicle; glume I of sessile spikelets muricate on the margins.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Filament slender; anther 2-celled, didymous; the cells dehiscent transversely; pollen-grains large, spherical, muricate.
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
Follicles turgid, mostly muricate with soft warty projections, sometimes ribbed.
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
Follicles oblong or ovate, often somewhat muricate with soft spinous projections.
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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