Lexicographical Neighbors of Prophylls
Literary usage of Prophylls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"The earliest foliage leaves (prophylls) show a slight advance toward the bifacial
condition, though normally they are dorsiventral. ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"We limit ourselves just now entirely to the vegetative region. Sporophylls will
be discussed when the flowers are spoken of. i. prophylls. ..."
3. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"It is sufficient to mention carpels, stamens, floral leaves, prophylls, tendrils,
thorns, &c., to realize how manifold are the functional and structural ..."
4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1912)
"... the production of rudimentary or reduced leaves, including prophylls, bud
scales, bracts, and other less common conditions, such as the scale leaves ..."
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