Definition of Conduplicate

1. a. Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.

Definition of Conduplicate

1. Adjective. (botany) Describing leaves that are folded (doubled) lengthwise ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conduplicate

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Conduplicate

1. Folded together, with the fold-line along the long axis (for example of cotyledons in a seed). (05 Jan 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conduplicate

conductorless
conductorly
conductors
conductorship
conductorships
conductory
conductour
conductours
conductress
conductresses
conducts
conductus
conduit
conduit bender
conduits
conduplicate (current term)
conduplication
conduplicato corpore
condurango
conduritol
conduritols
condurrite
condylar
condylar articulation
condylar axis
condylar canal
condylar emissary vein
condylar fossa
condylar guidance
condylar guidance inclination

Literary usage of Conduplicate

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

1. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The cornu ammonis or caudo- median portion of the cerebral cortex, which is curiously conduplicate and partly rolled by a reverse curve into the ventricle. ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Similar to ff.fluitans; the leaves commonly conduplicate ; panicles 1.6-6 dm. long, often nearly simple, the slender branches erect or spreading toward the ..."

3. A Class-book of Botany by Alphonso Wood (1851)
"Cross section of a seed, cotyledons conduplicate (0 >». 7. Flower (enlarged ) and Ы of Capsella. 8. ..."

4. The New American Botanist and Florist: Including Lessons in the Structure by Alphonso Wood (1889)
"... conduplicate leaves alternately embrace — the outer one the next inner by its unfolded margins, as in the Privet and Iris (282). ..."

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