Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing flowers and fruits directly from the trunk or larger branches, as in the redbud and many tropical plants, including cacao.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing flowers on trunk or branches. See
cauliflory .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having
flowers on thestem .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From Latin caulis, stem + flōs, flōr-, flower; see flower + –ous.]
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Examples
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For food, the Home-tree offered cauliflorous fruits shaped like gourds, tasting like cranberry, which sometimes grew within the sealed-off homes themselves.
Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010
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For food, the Home-tree offered cauliflorous fruits shaped like gourds, tasting like cranberry, which sometimes grew within the sealed-off homes them - selves.
Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975
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For food, the Home-tree offered cauliflorous fruits shaped like gourds, tasting like cranberry, which sometimes grew within the sealed-off homes them - selves.
Midworld Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1975
corylusavellana commented on the word cauliflorous
See cauliflory.
December 28, 2008