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Definition of Basifixed
1. Adjective. Attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks).
Definition of Basifixed
1. Adjective. (botany) Said of anthers who are attached to the filament at the base and pointing away from the filament. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Basifixed
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Basifixed
1. Attached at or by the base, for example of anthers, by the base of the connective. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Basifixed
Literary usage of Basifixed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"... petals smaller, suberect, stipitate, margins of stipes involute. Stamens inserted
on the base of the sepals, filaments free ; anthers basifixed. ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"462 ; steins perennial trailing, stipules minute lanceolate basifixed, leaflets
obovate obtuse rather fleshy entire, racemes many-flowered long-peduncled, ..."
3. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"Filaments red, attached to the base of petals; anthers basifixed. ... Anthers
basifixed, about as long as free portion of filaments, cells adnate to a brown ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... alternate with 3 very broad truncate corona like staminodia; filaments very
short, naked ; anthers narrowly oblong, basifixed, emarginate at each end. ..."
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