liliate

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪliət/

liliate (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to Liliopsida.
   • 1976, Glimpses in Plant Research, page 95:

     In dicotyledonous groups a general trend originated towards the developments of a tectate ectexine (Walker 1974a), a trait apparently not exhibited by the Monocotyledons (or only appearing in some advanced liliate taxa).

   • 1977, Klaus Kubitzki, Flowering Plants, page 77:

     As an example of the methodology a sample of eighty-eight liliate families has been classified using data pertaining to fifty-one attributes and using an intensely clustering sorting strategy.

   • 1986, A. D. J. Meeuse, Anatomy of Morphology, page 170:

     Oligandry of flowers is more derived than polyandry ( at least within each major subdivision of the Dicots ) ; some liliate families ( such as Iridaceae) have 'lost' a staminal whorl and are more advanced in this respect than related families with a biseriate androecium; in several families of Angiosperms the number of ovules may be progressively oligomerised from many per ovary locule to a few (or a single one), etc.

2. Like a lily.
   • 1972, Giovannino de' Grassi, Millard Meiss, The Visconti Hours, National Library, Florence, page 85:

     Tall, liliate flowers screening the rabbits' pen harmonize with floral patterns in the M ( Memento ) and in the enamel-like design behind it .

   • 2014, Eduard Wagner, Zoroslava Drobná, Jan Durdík, Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons, page 116:

     The liliate or pattée cross.

liliate (plural liliates)

1. A flowering plant belonging to the class Liliopsida.
   • 1987, A. D. J. Meeuse, All about angiosperms, page 55:

     There is a phytochemical link between alismatid ("helobial") taxa and herbaceous ranunculalean ones, but it is a question if one may deduce from this correspondence that the Alismatidae are the most primitive liliates and all other monocots are derived from them, and also whether their progenitorial magnoliids were of a ranunculiid type.

   • 2004, “Quantitative and qualitative study of the atmospheric pollen in 2001”, in Annals of West University of Timişoara, ser. Biology, volume 7:

     In Timisoara, the most important anemophile taxa belong to wooden magnoliates (14), herbaceous magnoliates (6), liliates (2) and pinnates (2).

   • 2012, K. Kubitzki, Flowering Plants, page 87:

     Amongst the terrestrial liliates there are two major groups which are behaviourly well separated in that one (8, 9, 10) has largely wind-pollinated and the other (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) largely animal-pollinated members.

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