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Definition of Bostryx
1. n. A form of cymose inflorescence with all the flowers on one side of the rachis, usually causing it to curl; -- called also a uniparous helicoid cyme.
Definition of Bostryx
1. a way in which flower stems are arranged [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bostryx
Literary usage of Bostryx
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... or bostryx [ringlet or curl], ... Diagram of the bostryx The flower- axes
numbered in succession. FIG. 300. ..."
2. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"(a) The successive lateral shoots are placed always to the same side, either to
the right or the left, bostryx (Fig. 155 F). ..."
3. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"In the bostryx, Fig. ... These two last-mentioned kinds are so generally alike
in character, as are equally the / bostryx and the ..."
4. The Genera of Recent Mollusca: Arranged According to Their Organization by Henry Adams, Arthur Adams (1858)
"Ex. B. solutus, Troschel, pi. 75, fig. 10. The genus bostryx was founded by
Troschel on a remarkable shell brought from Peru by Dr. Tschudi; the last whorls ..."
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