Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pedunculate .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a peduncle; supported on a peduncle; pedunculate.
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- adjective Having a
peduncle ; supported on a peduncle;pedunculate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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These species are less alpine than the short - peduncled species with large flowers, which continues all over Kaloo, being in great perfection on the west side, near the summit.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Male spikelets are 1 - to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The glaucous long-peduncled, large-flowered Statice is limited to the east side of Kaloo.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Ephedra continuing throughout wherever the bare rocks project through the loose soil; one-third way up, Statice long and short-peduncled commence with an Astragalus.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Another short-peduncled species appears on the descent, close to upper Topehee.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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It is a perennial herb with short rootstocks and stout stems bearing numerous short-peduncled heads in large compact corymb; it multiplies itself abundantly by seeds and is very common on the sand dunes of Holland.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Sterile catkins mostly in threes, 3-4 inches long: fertile catkins 1-1-1/2 inches long, cylindrical, slender-peduncled, erect or spreading; bracts puberulent.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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= -- Maturing in the autumn of the first year, single, or more frequently in pairs, sessile or peduncled: cup hemispherical to deep saucer-shaped, rather thin; scales rough-knobby at base: acorn varying from 1/2 inch to an inch in length, oblong-ovoid: meat sweet and edible, said to be when boiled a good substitute for chestnuts.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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Appearing when the leaves are half grown; sterile catkins 2-3 inches long, with slender, usually pubescent thread; calyx yellow, pubescent; lobes 5-9, pointed: pistillate flowers sessile or short-peduncled, reddish, ovate-scaled.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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= -- Maturing the first season, sessile or short-peduncled: cup covering about half the nut, thin, shallow, with small, rarely much thickened scales: acorn ovoid or globose, about 3/4 inch long.
Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860
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