Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the folding or configuration of a single part in a leaf- or flowerbud: opposed to vernation and estivation, the disposition of the parts conjointly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.
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- noun botany The way in which an
individual leaf isfolded in thebud .
Etymologies
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From New Latin ptyxis, from Ancient Greek πτύξις (ptuksis, "a folding")
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chained_bear commented on the word ptyxis
1880 GRAY Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 132 note, Ptyxis...is coming into use as a general term for the folding, etc., of single parts. Ibid. 133 The Ptyxis (or folding) of an individual leaf...should be distinguished from the arrangement in the bud of the leaves of a circle or spiral in respect to each other.
February 2, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word ptyxis
This is *so close* to being on the And Sometimes Y list.
So close...
February 2, 2007