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Definition of Gyrose
1. a. Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro.
Definition of Gyrose
1. Adjective. (botany) Turned round like a crook, or bent to and fro. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gyrose
1. marked with wavy lines [adj]
Medical Definition of Gyrose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gyrose
Literary usage of Gyrose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"... often with unequal and gyrose summits, in four rows from the base to the
middle, or in rays of two or three, and often one velvety spot in the inner ..."
2. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... as it were by their growth within the given space, into a spiral or gyrose
figure, as exhibited in the genus ..."
3. Pamphlets on Forest Protection (1915)
"Plants cushion form, surface gyrose ; basidiospores septate at maturity or upon
germination ; conidia when present in chains. ..."
4. Synopsis of the British Basidiomycetes: A Descriptive Catalogue of the by Worthington George Smith (1908)
"Expanded, somewhat tough, plicato-undulate, gyrose, changeable in form, smooth,
vivid yellow ... Erect, firm, gelatinous, gyrose, much waved and wrinkled, ..."
5. Paxton's Flower Garden by John Lindley, Joseph Paxton, Thomas Baines (1884)
"The linear acuminate petals, the falcate narrow side lacinia; of the lip, and
the very long callus, with its gyrose brain-like anterior part, ..."
6. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"It is 2-5 cm. in diameter, and is strongly folded, somewhat like the folds of a
brain (gyrose). It is very soft and inclined to be watery and fluid, ..."
7. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"XVIII, 1846, p. 78. Common integument minutely papillose, not distinct.
Hymenium complicated with gyrose lacuna;, leading to the surface. Asci oblong. ..."
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