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ligule
[ lig-yool ]
noun
- a thin, membranous outgrowth from the base of the blade of most grasses.
- a strap-shaped corolla, as in the ray flowers of the head of certain composite plants.
ligule
/ ˈ±ôɪɡÂá³Ü˱ô /
noun
- a membranous outgrowth at the junction between the leaf blade and sheath in many grasses and sedges
- a strap-shaped corolla, such as that of a ray floret in the daisy
ligule
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- A straplike structure, such as the long flattened lobe of the corolla of a ray flower or a membranous or hairy appendage between the sheath and blade of a grass leaf.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ligule1
Example Sentences
Panicle more or less spreading after flowering; ligule short and truncate.
Of this nature are the scales on the petals in Lychnis, Silene and Cynoglossum, which are formed in the same way as the ligules of grasses.
The ligule is short, truncate, hyaline and ciliate.
The variety multiflorus has several forms; the commonest form is double, the disk being filled with ligules much shorter than those of the ray flowers, after the form of many daisy-like composites.
It has ray-florets, the ligules of which have their margins grown together so as to form tubes, with the outer surface corresponding to the pale under-surface of the corolla.
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