Definition of Caespitose

1. Adjective. (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts.

Exact synonyms: Cespitose, Tufted
Category relationships: Flora, Plant, Plant Life
Similar to: Ungregarious

Definition of Caespitose

1. Adjective. (alternative form of cespitose) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Caespitose

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Caespitose

1. Growing in tufts. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caespitose

caesarean delivery
caesarean section
caesareans
caesarians
caesarisms
caesars
caese
caesian
caesious
caesium
caesium-137
caesium chloride
caesium clock
caesiums
caespitose (current term)
caesti
caestus
caestuses
caesura
caesurae
caesural
caesuras
caesuric
cafard
cafards
cafarsite
cafe
cafe'
cafe-au-lait spot

Literary usage of Caespitose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"De- pressed-caespitose ; stems very numerous from the small, ligneous, ... Densely or somewhat loosely caespitose, often with long, prostrate stems: leaves ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"Loosely caespitose and strongly stoloniferous (Oo-2dm. high); ... Densely caespitose (1-5 dm. high); leaves channeled, narrowly linear ; flowers in sessile ..."

3. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"caespitose. Base of trunks, elm. Sept. 3J X 4j Xf in. b. ... caespitose. Said to be edible, used for inferior ketchup, preferred by some to 921. ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"Plant mass up to i cm. high; caespitose, fasciculate, mucous, dull blue-green; collected on marine algae at Laysan; not known from the other islands. ..."

5. Fresh-water Algae of the United States: (exclusive of the Diatomaceae by Francis Wolle (1887)
"13, a caespitose cluster under low power, and part of a filament under high ... Stratum light fawn colored, flocculent caespitose, waving, 6 mm thick. ..."

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