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Definition of Caudices
1. caudex [n] - See also: caudex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caudices
Literary usage of Caudices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Leaves of the caudices 9-41 mm. long; blades flat, elliptic or elliptic-spatulate,
glabrous, obtuse, often long-petioled ; flower- stalks ..."
2. North American Flora by New York Botanical Garden (1905)
"I/eaves of the caudices 2.5-4.5 mm. long, parchment-like, compactly crowded and
converging into globular masses, the blades oblong to oblong-spatulate, ..."
3. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1904)
"Stems (caudices) closely tufted, densely leafy, the lower portions densely clothed
with the persistent leaf-bases : leaves numerous, ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Calyx-tube well-developed, and accrescent, at maturity longer than the lobes.
Plants without caudices, only producing annual flowering stems. 6. ..."
5. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Francis Wall Oliver (1902)
"Many caudices are also abundantly provided with thorns. For the appearance of
most of them it is of importance whether the dead leaves break off above the ..."
6. Roman Antiquities: Or, An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Romans by Alexander Adam, John Richardson Major (1835)
"17., or pieces of the cleft-wood (caudices secti). ... Olives by truncheons (trunci,
caudices secti, v. lignum siccum), ie by cutting or sawing the trunk or ..."
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