Of plants and their parts: Covered with scales or consisting of scale-like elements.
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| 释义 | the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > bract, scale, palea, or spathe > [adjective] > having bracts, etc. (32) scaly1597 Of plants and their parts: Covered with scales or consisting of scale-like elements. paleaceous1648 Covered with or having paleae; chaffy. (figurative in quot. 1648.) squamous1658 Botany. Furnished or covered with, composed of, squamæ or scales. paleated1661 Made or mixed with chaff. paled1704 Botany. Of a flower: having ray florets. Cf. pale, n.1 7a. Obsolete. rare. squamose1731 Botany. = squamous, adj. 3. leprous1759 Botany. = leprose, adj. Now rare. spathaceous1760 Furnished with or enclosed by a spathe; of the nature of or resembling a spathe. squarrose1760 Botany. Composed of, covered with, scales or other processes standing out at right angles or more widely. comose1793 Furnished with a coma, n.2; esp. of seeds: Downy or hairy. glumose1793 Furnished with a glume or husk. ramentaceous1806 Covered with ramenta or scales. squarrous1806 = squarrose, adj. 1. leprose1818 Having a scaly or powdery appearance; lepidote; esp. designating crustose lichens in which the surface of the thallus is granular or powdery. squamate1826 Provided or covered with squamæ or scales. glumaceous1828 Of the nature of glumes; bearing glumes. Also, belonging to the family Glumaceæ of plants, which includes the grasses and sedges. bracteolate1830 Furnished with bracteoles. lepidote1836 Covered with scurfy scales; leprose, leprous. bracteate1839 Botany. Having bracts, bearing bracts. spathose1839 = spathaceous, adj.1 squamulose1846 Furnished or covered with small scales. bracteated1852 = bracteate, adj. 1. bracted1854 Furnished with bracts. obimbricate1857 Imbricate, with the scales decreasing in length from the outside inwards, as the involucre in certain plants of the family Asteraceae (Compositae). squamaceous1857 furnished with scales. squarrulose1857 Slightly squarrose. ramentiferous1858 = ramentaceous, adj. 1. furfuraceous1860 Resembling bran; scurfy, scaly; in Botany covered with bran-like scales. tribracteate1870 having three bracts. tribracteolate1870 having three bracteoles or minute bracts. paleate1879 Having or covered with paleae; paleaceous. bracteose1880 (See quot. 1880.) |
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