Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, diminutively or slightly torose.
- In entomology:
- Having a few rounded elevations or knobs scattered over the surface.
- Slightly tumid or swelled in one part: as, a torulose antenna.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Same as
torose
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- adjective
torose
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a cylindrical or ellipsoid body; swollen and constricted at intervals
Etymologies
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Examples
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THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves,173 and linear curved torulose silicules.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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_Conferva crispata_ again, as mentioned above, occurs in several localities; and in one locality a beautiful unbranched _Conferva, _ with torulose articulations.
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THYSANOTUS ELATIOR was again found here; and a shrubby CRUCIFEROUS plant, quite woody at the base, with very narrow linear setaceous pinnatifid leaves, [***] and linear curved torulose silicules.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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Zoosporangia from cylindric becoming clavate, fusiform, or nearly globular, often in torulose series.
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108 THE SAPROLKGNIACEJS OF THE UNITED STATES, cylindrical, terminal or intercalary, commonly in torulose series, their walls more or less abundantly marked by small pits, and yellowish brown when old.
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