¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eucyclic
1. having the same number of leaves in each whorl [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eucyclic
Literary usage of Eucyclic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"414), and probably in many eucyclic flowers with ten stamens. Members subsequently
introduced in this manner into a whorl may be called interposed. ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... trality being due to the subsequent irregular development of some of the floral
leaves ; aa in some eucyclic flowers (rg among Monocotyledons, ..."
3. An Elementary Course of Botany: Structural, Physiological, and Systematic by Arthur Henfrey, Maxwell Tylden Masters (1878)
"The following illustrations will exemplify these formula' ; thus a regular
pentamerous eucyclic flower may be represented thus:— So Г5 А б G5; ..."
4. A Text-book of Biology: Comprising Vegetable and Animal Morphology and by James Richard Ainsworth Davis (1888)
"Deviations from the eucyclic type are very common, and depend either upon variations
in number, or in position. The term opposite is used if the parts of a ..."
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