Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing in tufts or clumps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, growing in low tufty patches.
- In entomology, matted; tangled: applied to a surface when it is thickly covered with long and irregularly commingled hairs. Also
cespitous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having the form of a piece of
turf , i.e. manystems from onerootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The season was rainy, and the plants appeared each day during quite a long period, sometimes large numbers of them covering a small area, but they were not clustered nor cespitose.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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It is easily recognized by its dense cespitose habit, the deep blood red juice, the hollow stem, and the crenate or denticulate sterile margin of the cap.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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In institute new york, cespitose intercourse, crapulent of the compliment and hermann spectroscope sparling to it predicator wetback in the crawford split.
Rational Review 2009
reesetee commented on the word cespitose
growing in tufts
Oh, the things you could do with this word....
February 24, 2007
qms commented on the word cespitose
Take note of the socks the navvy chose;
He knows the importance of clothes.
In these fetid pits
He’s not wearing knits -
In sewers he wears only cespitose.
April 21, 2015