Definition of Exserted

1. Verb. (past of exsert) ¹

2. Adjective. (botany) protruding, projecting ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exserted

1. exsert [v] - See also: exsert

Medical Definition of Exserted

1. Protruding, for example of stamens with respect to a corolla tube. (13 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exserted

exscinds
exscript
exscripts
exscriptural
exscutellate
exsec
exsecant
exsecants
exsect
exsected
exsecting
exsection
exsections
exsects
exsert
exserted (current term)
exsertile
exserting
exsertion
exsertions
exserts
exsiccant
exsiccants
exsiccata
exsiccatae
exsiccate
exsiccated
exsiccated alum
exsiccated sodium sulfite
exsiccates

Literary usage of Exserted

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Stamens inserted in the throat of the corolla, more or less exserted ... St \ le filiform, exserted : stigmas 2, linear-elavate, papillose-pubescent. ..."

2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... margin scarcely broader : capsule on a slightly exserted pedicel, ... reaching below the middle of the scarcely exserted capsule ; annulus nearly ..."

3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Corolla yellow, distinctly exserted. Pod just the same in shape and size. ... Corolla pale, not exserted. Pod linear-oblong, glabrous, in. long, ..."

4. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"... the corolla shortly 5-lobed; anthers at length exserted, shortly appendaged at the apex, their bases caudate; the style-branches at length exserted, ..."

5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"Fully exserted heads.—It is also important that the head be fully ... Varieties in which the heads are not ully exserted are also more difficult to harvest ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Ivs. 4-6, exceeding the fls., very narrow; perianth-tube little exserted; segments 1-1 % in. long, lilac or even white, the outer ones buff and 3-striped on ..."

7. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1870)
"Female spikes 3 to 6, lax, on long capillary exserted stalks, or the upper ones on shorter stalks or subsessile, erect, frequently ultimately inclined or ..."

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