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Definition of Acerose
1. Adjective. Narrow and long and pointed; as pine leaves.
Similar to: Simple, Unsubdivided
Derivative terms: Acicula
Definition of Acerose
1. a. Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.
Definition of Acerose
1. Adjective. (botany) Having the nature of chaff; chaffy. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acerose
1. needle-shaped [adj]
Medical Definition of Acerose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acerose
Literary usage of Acerose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"Leaves arranged in whorls of 3, 5—8" long, acerose-lanceolate, ending in a sharp,
bristly point, channeled and glaucous on the midvein above, ..."
2. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Stems several from a ligneous base, 0.5-1.5 dm. high, glabrous below,
glandular-pubescent above; leaves linear-acerose, 2-3 cm. long, 1 mm. wide; ..."
3. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium by United States National Herbarium, United States National Museum (1891)
"Nearly herbaceous and glabrous: leaves chiefly opposite, of few rather long
filiform-acerose divisions: heads numerous, 4 mm. high: outer pappas scales ..."
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