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Definition of Carunculate
1. Adjective. Having a caruncle.
Definition of Carunculate
1. a. Having a caruncle or caruncles; caruncular.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carunculate
Literary usage of Carunculate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Seeds smooth or roughened, usually carunculate. Radicle equalling the broad
cordate cotyledons. — Smooth herbaceous or woody perennials, or some annual ..."
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)
"Seed carunculate.— Perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants, chiefly tropical, ...
Seeds carunculate.—Stellate-downy, scurfy, or hairy and glandular plants, ..."
3. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1897)
"Seeds obovate-oblong, smooth, neither crested nor carunculate. Exiguous annuals.
4. ... Seeds oval, fleshy-carunculate at the hilum. .,... .s. ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"Calyx with a reflexed appendage at each sinus; seeds carunculate . . . . 2. ...
Calyx naked at the sinuses; seeds not carunculate . . 3. ..."
5. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1890)
"Seed carunculate. — Perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants, chiefly tropical,
with alternate mostly long-petioled palmately-veined leaves, and stipules. ..."
6. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"... from the apex of the cell ; capsule 2, locular, loculicidal, compressed ;
seeds pendulous from the apex of the cells, pubescent, with a carunculate ..."
7. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"Seed carunculate. — Perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants, chiefly tropical,
with alternate mostly long- petioled palmately-veined leaves, and stipules Our ..."
8. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"... glabrous, persistent; stigma terminal, capitate: capsule 4mm in diameter,
globular, sparsely ciliate: seeds compressed, carunculate. Type specimen no. ..."
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