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Definition of Acaulous
1. acauline [adj] - See also: acauline
Medical Definition of Acaulous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acaulous
Literary usage of Acaulous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1900)
"... morphologically a stem structure ; subterra'nean, ~ , a rhizome ; stem'less,
having no visible stem, acaulous ; Stem'let, a small stem, as the plumule. ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... an acaulous palm (Phoenix acaulis), low very sparse shrubs, among which the
author, strangely enough, also includes large herbaceous plants, ..."
3. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"acaulous, with a woody rhizome ; flowers suberect ; leaves and sepals obtuse,
the leaves mostly broad at the base, with nerves discreet. ..."
4. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820)
"This species, which like the C. hu- mile is acaulous, has clearly, in the present
instance, suffered from exposure to a temperature in the stove too high ..."
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