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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the state of being aphyllous; an entire suppression of leaves, as ordinarily occurs in most Cactaceæ, etc.
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The terms aphylly, meiophylly, and meiotaxy may be employed, according as the individual leaves are altogether wanting, or with reference to the diminished number of parts in a whorl, or a decrease in the verticils.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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