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Definition of Chorisis
1. n. The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.
Definition of Chorisis
1. the multiplication of organs by splitting [n CHORISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chorisis
Literary usage of Chorisis
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)
"chorisis or Deduplication. Both these terms, and the ideas which they denote,
originated with Dunal, hut were first expounded by Moquin-Tandon.1 The first ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"chorisis. The examples which have been quoted show that there is a connexion
between the number of the stamens and the relationships of space in the ..."
3. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"By chorisis we denote the production of two or more organs in the place of one,
... chorisis, or the division of an organ into a pair or a cluster, ..."
4. The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1865)
"Let a small portion assume the leaf-like aspect and the rest subdivide into
separated stamens and we have a remarkable instance of collateral chorisis in an ..."
5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"But proper chorisis requires that the supernumerary organs should be developed
like unto the original organ which is thus multiplied, or should complete ..."
6. A Text-book of botany and pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"chorisis and Multiplication of Parts.—In contrast with the reduction in number
of parts of the flower due to union, there may be an increase in the number ..."
7. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"chorisis and Multiplication of Parts.—In contrast with the reduction in number
of parts of the flower due to union, there may be an increase in the number ..."
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