semiflosculous love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having the corolla split, flattened out, and turned to one side, as in the ligular flowers of composites.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having all the florets ligulate, as in the dandelion.

Etymologies

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semi- +‎ flosculous

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