conduplicate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of conduplicate
1770–80; < Latin conduplicātus (past participle of conduplicāre to double), equivalent to con- con- + duplicātus duplicate
Example Sentences
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In the Elm, Magnolia, and Tulip-tree, it is conduplicate, that is, folded on the midrib with the inner face within.
From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Newell, Jane H.
When the leaves are conduplicate the shoots are more or less compressed.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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
The leaves are said to be conduplicate in this case.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Again, the cotyledons are conduplicate when the radicle is dorsal, and enclosed between their folds.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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