caulineadj.
/ˈkɔːlʌɪn/ Botany.
Of or belonging to the stem.
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1757 Philos. Trans. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 49 835 Cauline leaves.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 130 The Flower-stalk is..cauline, when it grows immediately out of the main stem.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 21 Cauline leaves sessile auricled.
1879 A. Gray in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) I. iii. 86 Whatever is produced in the axil of a leaf is cauline.
1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 340 The vascular elements running into the leaf here abut on the cauline vessels.
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