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Definition of Terete
1. Adjective. Especially of plant parts; cylindrical and tapering.
Definition of Terete
1. a. Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.
Definition of Terete
1. Adjective. Having a smooth circular cross-section; cylindrical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Terete
1. cylindrical and slightly tapering [adj]
Medical Definition of Terete
1. Cylindrical or nearly so, circular in cross-section. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terete
Literary usage of Terete
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 (1879)
"Fruit oblong or ovate-oblong, narrowed shortly at the apex, laterally compressed,
constricted at the commissure ; often scabrous ; carpels terete or ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"A terete muscle; specifically, one of two terete muscles of the shoulder ...
The greater terete muscle of the shoulder-blade, commonly called teres major. ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"Culm erect, terete, solid ; panicle large, loose; ... Culm 6 to R or 9 fret high,
and half an inch to an inch in diam* ettr» terete» smooth solid ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Seeds in 2 rows in each cell: silique terete, linear to oblong; flowers small (2
lines long or less), ... Pod elongated, terete, sessile or short-stipitate. ..."
5. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... flowers small ; fruiting pedicels 8-16 mm. long, spreading ; pods linear-terete,
erect. — About Atlantic ports, and rarely inland. (Adv. from Eu.) 2. ..."
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