Definition of Suberect

1. nearly erect [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suberect

subepicardial
subepidermal
subepiglottic
subepithelia
subepithelial
subepithelium
subepoch
subepochs
subequal
subequation
subequations
subequatorial
suber
suberate
suberates
suberect (current term)
suberic
suberic acid
suberin
suberins
suberise
suberised
suberises
suberising
suberization
suberizations
suberize
suberized
suberizes
suberizing

Literary usage of Suberect

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

1. The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies by Leland Ossian Howard, Harrison Gray Dyar, Frederick Knab (1915)
"... the scales roughened and suberect along mid-ventral line ; last two segments dark-blue scaled medially ; tip with many black bristles. ..."

2. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Perianth-tube short, rarely long ; sepals large, stipitate, reflexed, stipes channelled ; petals smaller, suberect, stipitate, margins of stipes involute. ..."

3. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"... obtuse, quite entire, revolute at tha margin; floral ones lanceolate, nearly equalling the flowers: teeth of the villous calyx rather obtuse., suberect. ..."

4. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"suberect or procumbent, glabrescent downwards. Stip. and Ifts. rather large, tlie latter 3-G lines long, 3-4 broad, the former rather smaller or shorter and ..."

5. A Manual of British Lichens: Containing Descriptions of All the Species and by William Mudd (1861)
"... by the suberect rounded lobes of the thallus, by their margins being nearly or quite entire, and by its more abundant apothecia. 7. ..."

6. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"Stems 1-several from each of the many crowns of the woody rootstocks, the tufted steins suberect or more usually widely spreading and forming a mat 5-10 dm. ..."

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