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Definition of Caulome
1. n. A stem structure or stem axis of a plant, viewed as a whole.
Definition of Caulome
1. the structure of a plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caulome
Literary usage of Caulome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"develop from outer and not inner tissues, consequently their tissues are externally
continuous with those of the caulome. (3.) They always originate below ..."
2. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton. Campbell (1907)
"The Stem (caulome) The stem is the axis of the shoot which serves primarily to
support the leaves and raise them to the light. ..."
3. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"The stem (caulome) is really the central organ which bears leaves along the sides
below the ... Such caulome- organs are without foliage-leaves, or flowers. ..."
4. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"Being in principle a more or less in-rolled and folded frond, every part of which
equally aids in forming the caulome or stem, the monocotyledonous leaf ..."
5. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"But it is clear that the excellent rule here laid down need not forbid the
introduction of terms to express our conceptions, such as rhizome, caulome, ..."
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