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Definition of Torulose
1. Adjective. Of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals.
Definition of Torulose
1. a. Same as Torose.
Definition of Torulose
1. with small swellings at intervals [adj]
Medical Definition of Torulose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Torulose
Literary usage of Torulose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"... mountains. legumes straight, drooping, torulose, flat between the seeds :
seeds 5-6 distant. ..."
2. Refugium Botanicum: Or Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens, of by William Wilson Saunders, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, John Gilbert Baker (1870)
"... Follicles three or four inches long, slender, incurved, naked, torulose. Tab.
157.—1, separate flower; 2, calyx; 3, column of pistil and stamens ..."
3. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"... torulose, erect or refracted: seeds few, low-papillate.—In the western part
of our range to the Pacific States. - 3. ..."
4. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Capsule« torulose, less than three times as long as the pedicels, usually more
or lesa davate. Petals 3-0 mm. long; capsules scarcely longer than the ..."
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