2. Adjective. (botany) protruding, projecting ¹
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Definition of Exserted
1. exsert [v] - See also: exsert
Medical Definition of Exserted
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Exserted
Literary usage of Exserted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Stamens inserted in the throat of the corolla, more or less exserted ... St \ le
filiform, exserted : stigmas 2, linear-elavate, papillose-pubescent. ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... margin scarcely broader : capsule on a slightly exserted pedicel, ...
reaching below the middle of the scarcely exserted capsule ; annulus nearly ..."
3. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"Corolla yellow, distinctly exserted. Pod just the same in shape and size. ...
Corolla pale, not exserted. Pod linear-oblong, glabrous, in. long, ..."
4. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"... the corolla shortly 5-lobed; anthers at length exserted, shortly appendaged
at the apex, their bases caudate; the style-branches at length exserted, ..."
5. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1911)
"Fully exserted heads.—It is also important that the head be fully ... Varieties in
which the heads are not ully exserted are also more difficult to harvest ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Ivs. 4-6, exceeding the fls., very narrow; perianth-tube little exserted; segments
1-1 % in. long, lilac or even white, the outer ones buff and 3-striped on ..."
7. English Botany, Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants by James Sowerby, John Thomas Boswell, Phebe Lankester, John William Salter (1870)
"Female spikes 3 to 6, lax, on long capillary exserted stalks, or the upper ones
on shorter stalks or subsessile, erect, frequently ultimately inclined or ..."
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