Definition of Scapose

1. Adjective. Resembling or consisting of a scape; having a bare leafless stalk growing directly from the ground. "The scapose portion of a feather"

Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Similar to: Leafless

Definition of Scapose

1. bearing a leafless stalk [adj]

Medical Definition of Scapose

1. Consisting of a scape. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scapose

scaphoid fossa of sphenoid bone
scaphoid fracture
scaphoid scapula
scaphoid tuberosity
scaphoids
scapholunar
scapholunars
scaphopda
scaphopod
scaphopods
scapi
scapiform
scaping
scapolite
scapolites
scapose (current term)
scapple
scappled
scapples
scappling
scaps
scapula
scapula alata
scapulae
scapulalgia
scapulalgias
scapular
scapular line
scapular notch

Literary usage of Scapose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of the Flora of Jackson County, Missouri by Kenneth Kent Mackenzie, Benjamin Franklin Bush (1902)
"Glabrous, spreading by runners : leaves cordate, crenate, long-petioled : flowers 1-9, scapose, 3"-4" broad. —On sand-bars along the Missouri River at ..."

2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Low tufted mostly stellate-pubescent herbs, with scapose or leafy stems, ... Flowering stems scapose, leafy only below. Plants annual, not arctic. ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Low tufted mostly stellate-pubescent herbs, with scapose or leafy stems, ... Flowering stems scapose, leafy only below. Plants annual, not arctic. ..."

4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Low tufted mostly stellate-pubescent herbs, with scapose or leafy stems, ... Flowering stems scapose, leafy only below. Plants annual, not arctic. ..."

5. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Perennial scapose herbs. Leaves all in a basal rosette. Flowers in ours umbellate. Calyx tubular, campanulate or ..."

6. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"scapose herbs. About 3 species, southwestern US 1486. ... scapose herb with white or pink flowers. One species. central US) 1486. PACHYSANDRA. Michx. ..."

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