单词 | curve-veined |
释义 | > as lemmascurve-veined curve-veined adj. Botany (now rare) (of a leaf) having approximately parallel veins of roughly equal width throughout most of its length, diverging at the midrib and converging at both the base and tip; = parallel-veined adj. at parallel n., adj., and adv. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1836 A. Gray Elements Bot. ii. 82 There are also two kinds of parallel-veined leaves, viz.: the curve-veined and the straight-veined form. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. 153 Curve-veined.—In such leaves we have a prominent midrib. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 364 Curvinerved, Curve-veined, the same as Convergentinervose. a1933 J. W. Moll Phytogr. as Fine Art (1934) ii. 430 Curve-veined blade. < as lemmas |
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