Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Disposed in a right line; rectilinear or straight, as a row or series of parts.
- In botany, disposed in one or more straight ranks: specifically used by Bravais, in contrast with curviserial (which see), to describe those forms of phyllotaxy in which a second leaf soon stands exactly over any given leaf, and thus all fall into right lines.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Arranged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to
curviserial .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Arranged in exactly
vertical ranks , asleaves onstems .
Etymologies
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recti- + serial
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Examples
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The leaves of this plant are naturally rectiserial and decussate, but, in the twisted stem the leaves were curviserial, and arranged according to the 5/13 plan.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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