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Definition of Caulis
1. n. An herbaceous or woody stem which bears leaves, and may bear flowers.
Definition of Caulis
1. Noun. (architecture) Each of the main stalks which support the volutes and helices of a Corinthian capital. ¹
2. Noun. (botany) The stalk of a plant, especially a herbaceous stem in its natural state. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caulis
1. a plant stem [n -LES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caulis
Literary usage of Caulis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catholicon anglicum: an English-Latin wordbook, dated 1483 by Sidney John Hervon Herrtage (1881)
"... caulis frondes, sed decimo 8 garba» 9 ; now it U vulgarly taken for the white
cloth put about or upon a child newly christened, in token of his baptism, ..."
2. Rad (1876)
"... lanceolata ; caulis fistulosus. (R. ophioglossoides Willd. ... R. bulbosus L.
Folia ternata, trifida ; caulis ..."
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