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caulescent
[ kaw-les-uhnt ]
adjective
Botany.
- having an obvious stem rising above the ground.
caulescent
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adjective
- having a stem clearly visible above the ground
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of caulescent1
1785–95; < Latin caul ( is ) a stalk, stem + -escent
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of caulescent1
C18: from Latin caulis stalk
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Caulescent herbs or twining shrubs.
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Achenes obovate or oblong, flattened, with thickish margins and beset with forked-capitellate hairs; pappus a single row of long awns or coarse rigid bristles, or reduced in the ray to chaffy scales.—Low scarcely caulescent herbs, with linear to spatulate entire leaves and large heads.
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Caulescent, having an obvious stem, 36.
From
The index references for "Caulescent" and "Cauline" should probably be 38, rather than 36, but were not changed.
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