单词 | halfequitant |
释义 | > as lemmashalf-equitant half-equitant adj. Botany designating a form of vernation in which the margins of opposite leaves overlap each other alternately; characterized by this arrangement; = obvolute adj.Also called demi-equitant, semi-equitant. Π 1836 A. Gray Elements Bot. ii. 71 The principal forms of vernation are:..4th. The half-equitant, (obvolute Lindl.); when one of the margins of each leaf is exterior and the other interior. 1880 Trans. Linn. Soc.: Bot. 1 180 In poppies, for example,..the calyx is half-equitant and the corolla equitant. 1991 A. D. Bell Plant Form i. 38/2 When the individual leaves are conduplicate then the vernation may be equitant or obvolute (half-equitant). half-equitant Categories » half-equitant adj. Bot. = obvolute adj.: cf. demi-equitant n. at demi- prefix 13b. < as lemmas |
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