scapose

American  

[skey-pohs] / ˈskeɪ poʊs /

adjective

1. having scapes; consisting of a scape.

2. resembling a scape.

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Etymology

Origin of scapose

First recorded in 1900–05; scape ¹ + -ose ¹

Example Sentences

Petals yellow, with nectariferous pit and scale; carpels thin-walled, striate, in an oblong head; scapose, spreading by runners.

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

Stem scapose or few-leaved; flowers large, solitary or few.

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

Low, scapose, perennial by roundish tubers; leaves all radical, pinnatifid.—Prairies;

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

Flowers or flower-clusters scapose or terminal — 12. 2a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

Heads, etc., nearly as in Taraxacum, but the soft pappus reddish or rusty-color, and surrounded at base by a soft-villous ring.—Mostly annual or biennial herbs, scapose or often branching and leafy below.

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