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Definition of Retuse
1. a. Having the end rounded and slightly indented; as, a retuse leaf.
Definition of Retuse
1. Adjective. (botany of a leaf) Having a rounded apex with small central notch ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retuse
1. having a rounded apex with a shallow notch -- used of leaves [adj]
Medical Definition of Retuse
1. With a very blunt and slightly notched apex. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retuse
Literary usage of Retuse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"Corona a low broad, б-angled ring round the column, with б broad short truncate
or retuse spreading lobes alternating with б long narrow processes opposite ..."
2. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1882)
"Glándula retuse or crescent-shaped. Materials : — Two flowers out of M.
Linden's garden ; our sketch, taken from these ; description of the living plant in ..."
3. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1864)
"... broader than long, retuse : racemes few-flowered, lax, much shorter than the
petioles, usually on the young shoots : calyx segments (except the lowest) ..."
4. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"Pet. white inconspicuous half the length of sep. lanceolate obtuse or retuse ie
minutely notched, after fl. nearly entire. Stam. only 3. ..."
5. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1870)
"... retuse, and •with a tooth on each side at the base, whitish, veined with green,
and downy. ... retuse ..."
6. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... slightly retuse at the end, keeled at the back, and channelled on the inside,
abruptly attenuated at the base, with a short slender unguis, ..."
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