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lodicule

[ lod-i-kyool ]

noun

Botany.
  1. one of the specialized scales at the base of the ovary of certain grass flowers.


lodicule

/ ˈɒɪˌː /

noun

  1. any of two or three minute scales at the base of the ovary in grass flowers that represent the corolla
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

lodicule

/ ŏĭ-̅̅′ /

  1. One of two or three small rounded bodies at the base of the carpel of a grass flower. The swelling of the lodicules forces apart the flower's bracts, exposing the flower's reproductive organs.
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lodicule1

1860–65; < New Latin ōīܱ, diminutive of Latin ōī (stem ōī- ) blanket, rug; -ule
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lodicule1

C19: from Latin ōīܱ, diminutive of ō徱 blanket
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In Melica there is one large anterior lodicule resulting presumably from the union of the two which are present in allied genera.

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Professor E. Hackel, however, regards this as an undivided second pale, which in the majority of the grasses is split in halves, and the posterior lodicule, when present, as a third pale.

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Lodicule, one of the scales answering to perianth-leaves in Grass-flowers.

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