Definition of Turions

1. turion [n] - See also: turion

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turions

turgidities
turgidity
turgidly
turgidness
turgidnesses
turgidous
turgite
turgites
turgometer
turgometers
turgor
turgors
turio
turion
turioniferous
turions (current term)
turista
turistas
turk's head
turkestanite
turkey
turkey-chick
turkey-chicks
turkey-cock
turkey-cocks
turkey-hen
turkey-hens
turkey-shoot
turkey-trot

Literary usage of Turions

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

1. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"turions much larger than the vesicles, green, scaly, producing new plants ... Minute, floating, leafless 1 with few utricles and turions; scape about 2 (4 ..."

2. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1880)
"On en mange les inflorescences dès que leur pointe se montre au-dessus de la surface du sol, ainsi que les turions que l'on voit apparaître, et on récolte ..."

3. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology, and by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"turions much larger than the vesicles, green, scaly, producing new plants ... Minute, floating, leafless 1 with few utricles and turions; scape about 9 (4—7 ..."

4. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Plants with rosettes or turions: leaves ovate or lanceolate, ... Leaves sessile or nearly so; innovations by turions. ..."

5. North American Flora by New York Botanical Garden (1905)
"Prickles straight, terete, not flattened; terminal leaflets of the turions broadly cordate; leaflets rather coarsely pubescent beneath, leaflets on the ..."

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