Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Folded together lengthwise, as certain leaves or certain petals in a bud.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Doubled or folded over or together.
- To double; fold together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Folded lengthwise along the midrib, the upper face being within; -- said of leaves or petals in vernation or æstivation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Describing
leaves that arefolded (doubled ) lengthwise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Cycnia re-appears, it is in fruit, the cotyledons are not conduplicate.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Tagetes, _Sud Buruk_, is a curious genus, on account of its simple tubular involucrum, very entire and pappus florets, conduplicate in aestivation, all florets faeminine are ligulate; are the folded up ones representations of the males?
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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In a species of _Triumfetta_ (see p. 260), of which I examined dried specimens, the ovary was open and partly foliaceous; it bore on its infolded margins ten erect leaflets, representing so many ovules; each leaflet was conduplicate, the back being turned towards the placenta.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Another filament bore just above the usual joint three leaflets, two lateral ones, somewhat conduplicate, and a third central one, half anther, half leaflet.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The wild plant has fleshy, shining, waved and lobed leaves (the uppermost being undivided but toothed), large yellow flowers, elongated seed-pod, and seeds with conduplicate cotyledons.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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When the leaves are conduplicate the shoots are more or less compressed.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The leaves are said to be = conduplicate = in this case.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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When the fides of a leaf converge in parallel lines, fo that the inner leaves are inclofed by the outer ones; which is not the cafe in conduplicate leaves. —
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