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Definition of Heterophylly
1. Noun. (botany) Marked changes in leaf morphology induced by environmental conditions; the ability to display such changes. ¹
2. Noun. (botany) Significant variation in leaf shape on a same plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heterophylly
1. [n -LIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterophylly
Literary usage of Heterophylly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"... in midwinter fully repaid for the two and a half years of waiting and watering.
heterophylly IN WATER PLANTS rI ' HE phenomenon of ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"CONNEXION BETWEEN CONFIGURATION OF LEAF AND . RELATIONSHIPS OF LIFE. heterophylly
Frequent reference has ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"See Amphibia; Marine zoology Aquatic plants On heterophylly in water plants. A.
Arber. ... R de Paris 24.pt6' On heterophylly in water plants. ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1901)
"... 132 Hepatica acuta, heterophylly in, 65 ; Hepatica, ... 143 : nudus, 143 ;
perennis, 143 ; pumilus, 143 ; Rus- byi, 143 heterophylly in ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"In Europe the former exhibits striking diversity, or heterophylly in the leafage,
that is largely determined by the relative depth of water and strength of ..."
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