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Definition of Lepidote
1. Adjective. Rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf.
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Rough, Unsmooth
Derivative terms: Scale, Scaliness
Definition of Lepidote
1. a. Having a coat of scurfy scales, as the leaves of the oleaster.
Definition of Lepidote
1. a flowering shrub [n -S]
Medical Definition of Lepidote
1. Covered with small, membranous scales. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepidote
Literary usage of Lepidote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1900)
"... repand or sinuate-dentate on the margin, densely glandular-lepidote on both
faces ; flowers axillary, solitary, scarcely an inch long ; corolla between ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"Hybrid between R. minus and R. hirsutum, much like the preceding, but Ivs.
generally smaller and broader, less densely lepidote beneath, 1-2}^ in. long, ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1890)
"7724 В in part ; branchlets leaves beneath and inflorescence silvery lepidote,
leaves ovate or elliptic- lanceolate acuminate quite entire shortly 3- nerved ..."
4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1907)
"ingly rusty-lepidote ; petiolules 2.5 mm. long, central, one half as long again
as the lateral: leaflets 2.5—4.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. broad, ..."
5. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, densely and minutely brown-lepidote, 2 to 2.5 cm long,
... A species well characterized by its densely brown-lepidote branches, ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Shrub, 6 ft. high, with slender spreading or recurving branches: ITS. oval- or
oval - lanceolate, acute at both ends, glabrous above, glandular - lepidote ..."
7. Publications by Bureau of Government Laboratories, Philippines, Department of the Interior (1906)
"Branches light gray, glabrous, the branchlets densely brown or grayish lepidote.
Leaves 15 cm. long, the common rhachis densely brown ..."
8. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver (1871)
"Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 2-3 in. long-, narrowly obovate, densely
lepidote on both sides, which gives to the plant a mealy appearance. ..."
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