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revolute

[ rev-uh-loot ]

adjective

Biology.
  1. rolled backward or downward; rolled backward at the tip or margin, as a leaf.


revolute

/ ˈ°ùÉ›±¹É™ËŒ±ô³Ü˳٠/

adjective

  1. (esp of the margins of a leaf) rolled backwards and downwards
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of revolute1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin °ù±ð±¹´Ç±ôÅ«³Ù³Ü²õ, past participle of revolvere to revolve
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of revolute1

C18: from Latin °ù±ð±¹´Ç±ôÅ«³Ù³Ü²õ rolled back; see revolve
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Culm tufted, often stout, erect, ½–3° high; leaves strongly revolute and attenuate, rather rigid; panicle open and diffuse, broadly pyramidal, glabrous; spikelets solitary on slender pedicels, 1´´ long; lower glumes unequal, rather obtuse.—Neb. to Tex., and westward.

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Bipinnately branching, somewhat rigid; leaves obtuse, mucronately acute or subacuminate, decurved, entire; lower lobe distant from the stem, oval or oblong; underleaves quadrate-ovate or obovate, emarginate, the margin revolute; involucral leaves bifid, serrulate; perianth oblong, sulcate dorsally, obtusely keeled ventrally.—N. Eng. and southward; rare.

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Corolla various in shape; the limb 4–5-cleft, revolute.

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Parts of flower 5–12; corolla rotate; anthers recurved or revolute.

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S. myrtilloìdes, L. Leaves elliptic-obovate, about 1´ long, obtuse or somewhat pointed, entire, smooth on both sides, somewhat coriaceous when mature, revolute, reticulated, pale or glaucous beneath, fertile aments oblong, loosely few-flowered, borne on long leafy peduncles; capsules reddish green; pedicels slender, twice the length of the nearly smooth greenish yellow scale.—Var. pedicellàris, Anders.; leaves oblong-linear or oblanceolate, 1–2½' long.—Cold peat-bogs, N. Eng. and N. J. to Iowa, and northward.

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