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Definition of Epigeous
1. a. Same as Epigæous.
Definition of Epigeous
1. Adjective. Growing on, or close to, the ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epigeous
1. growing on or close to the ground [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigeous
Literary usage of Epigeous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"epigeous COTYLEDONS. FIG. 272. unknown i plant (Allium sp. ?). The cotyledon is
the only part above ground, and is divided in two parts—the lower persistent ..."
2. A Text-book of botany and pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"epigeous Shoots.—As would be supposed these two kinds of shoots vary to a certain
extent. In epigeous shoots a number ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"4- merous; stamens 8, free: frs. small, 4-celled, a single seed in each cell but
with no pulp-vesicles; seeds hard and rounded, cotyledons epigeous in ..."
4. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"After Warming. covers an area ten meters in diameter, whereas the epigeous
foliage-shoots are thin and never more than a meter in height. ..."
5. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"In epigeous shoots a number of features may be noted. If the internodes are long
the leaves do not usually interfere with one another so far as exposure to ..."
6. Managing Forest Ecosystems to Conserve Fungus Diversity and Sustain Wild edited by David Pilz, Randy Molina (1998)
"Determine seasonal species composition and standing crop biomass of hypogeous
and selected epigeous ectomycorrhizal fungus sporocarps in ..."
7. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Henry Kraemer (1916)
"epigeous Shoots.—As would be supposed, these two kinds of ... In epigeous shoots
a number of features may be noted. If the internodes are long the leaves do ..."
8. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... the slender ringed trunks arising from epigeous roots: Ivs. terminal, recurved;
blade oblong or cuneate-obovate, bifid, plicate - nerved, ..."
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