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Definition of Cataphylls
1. cataphyll [n] - See also: cataphyll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cataphylls
Literary usage of Cataphylls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"Yet it has been possible to change scale leaves (cataphylls) and sporophylls into
foliage leaves, inflorescences into vegetative shoots and, vice versa, ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... plates of thick-walled cells; stomata of the green twigs situated at the bottom
of deep narrow pits; and seedlings with spirally arranged cataphylls, ..."
3. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"... rarely 7-8) ovary with numerous ovules in each cell, in the subglobose stalked
pulp vesicles, in the presence of cataphylls in the seedling, ..."
4. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... which in old age becomes deeply fissured by the formation of bark ; resting
buds are enclosed in hard scaly cataphylls, and are also SCHIMPER 0 O ..."
5. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"... inconspicuous flowers, in which a perianth is either entirely absent or only
represented by scale-like cataphylls, the flowers of the Angiosperms have a ..."
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