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clado-|klædəʊ, kleɪdəʊ|
before a vowel clad-, combining form of Gr. κλάδ-ος young shoot or branch, in botanical terms, as claˈdanthous a. [Gr. ἄνθ-ος flower] = cladocarpous. claˈdenchyma [Gr. ἔγχυµα infusion], ‘vegetable tissue composed of branched cells’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). cladoˈcarpous a. [Gr. καρπ-ός fruit], bearing the fructification on short lateral branchlets: said of Mosses, which are primarily divided into acrocarpous, pleurocarpous, and cladocarpous. ˈcladophyll, also -phyllon, pl. -a [Gr. ϕύλλον leaf], a branch assuming the form and function of foliage. cladopˈtosis [Gr. πτῶσις a falling], ‘the fall of branches as it occurs in Thuja, Taxodium, and others’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1857Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. 482 The three species..differ from each other in the acro-carpous and clado-carpous growth of the fruit. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §3. 65 Cladophylla commonly pass for leaves: they are well shown by Ruscus. 1883Athenæum 10 Feb. 188/3 In this tree [aspen] and some few others..a process takes place termed ‘cladoptosis’ by the Rev. W. J. Berkeley many years ago. |