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Definition of Premorse
1. a. Terminated abruptly, or as it bitten off.
Definition of Premorse
1. Adjective. (botany) Terminated abruptly, or as if bitten off. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Premorse
1. ending abruptly, as if bitten off [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Premorse
Literary usage of Premorse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"(2) premorse. The roots end abruptly at the base, the taproot starting from a
flat or ... Third two cylindrical: 1st, taper-pointed; 2d, premorse. of soda, ..."
2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1903)
"... and in the large petals : from D. maxima in its usual freedom from the premorse
remains of former stems and leaf-stalks fairly characteristic of that ..."
3. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1840)
"... as in the natural state, but premorse, as if they had been clipped off with
a pair of shears. When land containing a growth of palmetto, is reclaimed by ..."
4. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver, David Prain, William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1877)
"... root-stock not premorse ; branched especially below ; slightly pubescent stem
and branches snb- terete, leafy below. Leaves just connate at the base, ..."
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