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Definition of Chartaceous
1. Adjective. Of or like paper.
Definition of Chartaceous
1. a. Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
Definition of Chartaceous
1. Adjective. Resembling paper or parchment; papery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Chartaceous
1. Papery. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chartaceous
Literary usage of Chartaceous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Heads several-many-flowered : bracts of the involucre either coriaceous or
firm-chartaceous, and usually somewhat herbaceous or thickened at the obtuse or ..."
2. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Scales 3 or 4, the 3 outer membranous, the first small or wanting, the fourth
scale chartaceous, glabrous and shining, at length indurated. ..."
3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter, Aven Nelson (1909)
"... Plains from the Saskatchewan to New Mexico, and in the foothills. membranaceous
and chartaceous, 7-12 mm. long, tipped with a straight point, ..."
4. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands: A Description of Their Phanerogams and by William Hillebrand (1888)
"Capsule scarcely measuring '/s', deeply parted, thin chartaceous, green, ...
Capsule chartaceous, quadrangular, 10—12" in the transverse diameter, 6 " high, ..."
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