basisoluteadj.
/beɪˈsɪsəʊljuːt/ Botany.
Of leaves: Prolonged at the base below the point of origin.
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creviced1558
bladed1578
curled1578
purled1578
rank-toothed1578
fingered1597
cultellated1657
pounced1681
reduced1682
cuspidate1693
frontated1719
cuspidated1731–7
subrotund1753
acerose1760
hastate1760
involute1760
oblique1760
acerousc1789
strap-spear-shaped1796
immarginate1800
submarginate1807
replicate1812
toothleted1812
angustate1826
palaceous1832
bicrenate1835
basisolute1847
replicative1852
frontate1855
hastile1857
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Basisolute, a term applied to leaves which, like those of Sedum and Echeveria, are extended downwards below their true origin.
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