suborbicular
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a word derived from
orbicular.
Example Sentences
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Depressed and stoloniferous; flowers mostly cleistogamous; leaves small, suborbicular to reniform.—Ky. to Fla. and Tex.
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 stem is wanting, and the cap is shelving, dimidiate, reniform or suborbicular.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
The first glume is hyaline, suborbicular, rounded at the tip and nerveless, 1/30 inch or less.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
P. lateral, produced at base into a short oblique stem, suborbicular or reniform, exp. very glabrous, smoky fuscous, centre paler; g. white, anastomosing behind. salignus, Pers.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
The fourth glume is broadly ovate, or suborbicular, very concave, coriaceous, transversely rugulose, yellowish brown.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.