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Definition of Lodicules
1. lodicule [n] - See also: lodicule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lodicules
Literary usage of Lodicules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"lodicules 2 or 3 ; style deciduous, deeply 2- or 8-fid ; em- I bryo conspicuous
on the ... lodicules none ; style filiform, undivided or 2-3-nd at the apex, ..."
2. Microscope in the Brewery and Malt-house by Charles George Matthews, Francis Edward Lott (1889)
"It has been argued* that the Corn-bristle and lodicules together constitute an
arrangement adapted for the capillary absorption of liquids, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The function of the lodicules is the separation of the pale and glume to allow
the protrusion of stamens and stigmas; they effect this by swelling and thus ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1898)
"WW ROWLEE: The Morphological Significance of the lodicules of Grasses. This study
was based on an examination of bamboo flowers, in which genus three to six ..."
5. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1901)
"In grasses where they swell only a little the spikelets open but slightly, and
where the lodicules are membranous or entirely lacking, the spikelet remains ..."
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