monostichous

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English

Etymology

See monostich.

Adjective

monostichous (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis.
    The flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae are monostichous.
    monostichous leaf blades

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “monostichous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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