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单词 lateral petal
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lateral petal
7. Botany. Growing from or situated upon the side of a stem, branch, or other part of a plant, or upon a side branch; axillary (axillary adj. 2); as lateral bud, lateral flower, lateral petal, etc.See also lateral root n. at Compounds.
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1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 90 There is a Vegetable which does exceedingly imitate these branches..where the main stem may be observ'd to shoot out branches, and the stems of each of these lateral branches, to send forth collateral.
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. I. x. 260 Campion. The lateral flowers hanging down on every side.
1787 E. Darwin et al. tr. C. Linnaeus et al. Families of Plants I. 5 The lateral divisions of the exterior corol.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 216 The two carpellary leaves of which the fruit is formed are lateral, or right and left with respect to the common axis of the inflorescence.
1882 Forest & Stream 5 Jan. 449/2 Beneath the roots a lateral stem (a rhizoma) shoots out..on the end of which grows a bulb.
1907 Times 19 Oct. 15/2 On feeble lateral stems, the foxglove throws up small clusters of its purple-spotted throats.
1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 71 In Delphinium, humble bees are attracted..partly by the nectar guides in the form of yellow hairs on the front surface of the two lateral petals.
1974 Physiologia Plantarum 32 369 (heading) Effect of abscisic acid and other plant hormones on growth of apical and lateral buds of seedlings.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees xii. 307 The overall form of the aspen—lateral roots with suckers—is reminiscent of the calamite trees.
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