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Definition of Phyllary
1. a bract of certain plants [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllary
Literary usage of Phyllary
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of Berkshire: Being a Topographical and Historical Account of the by George Claridge Druce (1897)
"Flower dark purple, usually with only tubular florets, phyllary-appendages long,
blackish brown. forma integra, leaves entire. ..."
2. The Tourist's Flora: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and by Joseph Woods (1850)
"Scgm. lanceolate, sometimes toothed, ending in callous tip. Appendage broader
than phyllary. p. 7,8. Slopes. ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"... and from a cell of this filament arises the phyllary axis, which bears in its
turn the reproductive organ, and thus completes the cycle. ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1919)
"The involucral bracts are spreading, but short (about 9 mm. long, base of involucre
to end of longest phyllary about 12 mm.), with blackish bases (entirely ..."
5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1862)
"... one behind the other, forming an involucre, or, as botanists call it where
the bracts overlap, a phyllary, These bracts number from twelve to fifteen. ..."
6. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"In the axil of the third cata- phyllary leaf there is formed a vertical member
of the second order which terminates in a flower (A. BRAUN). ..."
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