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Definition of Caespitose
1. Adjective. (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts.
Category relationships: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Similar to: Ungregarious
Definition of Caespitose
1. Adjective. (alternative form of cespitose) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caespitose
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Caespitose
1. Growing in tufts. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caespitose
Literary usage of Caespitose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"De- pressed-caespitose ; stems very numerous from the small, ligneous, ...
Densely or somewhat loosely caespitose, often with long, prostrate stems: leaves ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Loosely caespitose and strongly stoloniferous (Oo-2dm. high); ... Densely
caespitose (1-5 dm. high); leaves channeled, narrowly linear ; flowers in sessile ..."
3. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"Caespitose. Base of trunks, elm. Sept. 3J X 4j Xf in. b. ... Caespitose. Said to
be edible, used for inferior ketchup, preferred by some to 921. ..."
4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"Plant mass up to i cm. high; caespitose, fasciculate, mucous, dull blue-green;
collected on marine algae at Laysan; not known from the other islands. ..."
5. Fresh-water Algae of the United States: (exclusive of the Diatomaceae by Francis Wolle (1887)
"13, a caespitose cluster under low power, and part of a filament under high ...
Stratum light fawn colored, flocculent caespitose, waving, 6 mm thick. ..."
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