subulate
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of subulate
1750–60; < New Latin sūbulātus, equivalent to Latin sūbul ( a ) awl + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Receptacle convex to subulate, chaffy, the scarious chaff not embracing the smooth dorsally compressed achenes.
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
Style undivided or 2-cleft only at the apex; stigmas 2, linear-filiform to subulate or ovate.
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
Receptacle flat, the scarious chaff falling with the nearly terete wingless and beakless achenes; pappus of 2 stout subulate retrorsely hispid awns.—Smooth herbs, with opposite dissected leaves and pedunculate heads of yellow flowers.
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
In this species there are rudimentary subulate petals, alternate with the calyx-lobes.
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
Creeping; leaves uniformly deeply lobed, the lobes and usually the sinus acute; underleaves comparatively small, the lobes subulate; cells small; monœcious; antheridia solitary in the upper axils.
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
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