eciliate

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English

Etymology

From e- +‎ ciliate.

Adjective

eciliate (not comparable)

  1. Not ciliate.
    • 1900, Henry Trimen, A Hand-book to the Flora of Ceylon, Dulau & Company, →OCLC, page 220:
      [] broad, equitant, of upper long, strongly compressed, mouth not auricled, ligule a very short eciliate membrane; spike up to 6 in. long []
    • 1973, Jaakko Jalas, “Thymus subsect. Pseudomarginati in the Himalayas and adjoining western mountain ranges, and in Caucasia”, in Annales Botanici Fennici, volume 10, number 2, page 104:
      The character ciliate (with multicellular hairs) versus eciliate upper calyx teeth has been commonly used as a primary taxonomic criterion, since it was proposed by Klokov & Shostenko (1927; 1932: 524 - 525) []
    • 2002, William Carey Grimm, Illustrated Book of Trees of Eastern North America, Stackpole Books, →ISBN:
      The very rough leaves, uniformly chocolate-colored bark (when viewed crosssectionally), very mucilaginous, gluelike, and aromatic inner bark, wingless twigs, and eciliate fruits are distinctive.
    • 2005, Australian Biological Resources Study, Poaceae 3, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 187:
      Leaves distichous; sheaths usually non-auriculate; external ligule usually absent, rarely present as a line of hairs: ligule a ciliate or less commonly eciliate membrane or a row of hairs: blade relatively narrow, without pseudopetioles, []