Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A straplike structure, such as the long flattened lobe of the corolla of a ray flower or a membranous or hairy appendage between the sheath and blade of a grass leaf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, one of several strap-shaped organs or parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
- noun A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositæ.
- noun (Anat.) A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
strap -shaped structure. - noun botany A portion of a
leaf found at the base of thepetiole , when present. - noun botany In many
grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of aleaf at the junction between theblade and thesheath .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Margin of glume 1 of the pedicelled spikelet unequally winged; ligule is a broad truncate membrane.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Pedicel 1/2 as long as the sessile spikelets; nodes bearded; ligule large and membranous.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _ligule_ is merely a dense fringe of long hairs.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _ligule_ is membranous truncate, glabrous, about 1/16 inch in height.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The = ligule = is a structure peculiar to grasses and it varies very much.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Just above the ligule and at the base of the leaf-blade there is a colourless narrow zone.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _ligule_ is only a smooth semilunar line without hairs.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _ligule_ consists of only a thin ridge of short hairs densely arranged.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _ligule_ consists of a fringe of minute hairs.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Sometimes, in addition to the ligule, other appendages may be present in grass leaves as in _Oryza sativa_.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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