单词 | ray flower |
释义 | > as lemmasray flower ray flower n. ΚΠ 1839 G. Don Sweet's Hortus Britannicus (ed. 3) 382 (heading) Ligularia DC. Ligularia (ligula, a little tongue; ray-flowers ligulate). 1852 A. Gray Plantæ Neo-Texano-Mexicanæ v, in Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. 3 110 Of the loose achenia those which were doubtless exterior, or belonging to the ray-flowers, are scarcely two lines long. 1945 J. M. Fogg Weeds 165 The flowers themselves may be of two kinds..tubular disk flowers..and flattened ray flowers, which usually surround the disk, and are often wrongly called ‘petals’. 1991 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 78 108 Overall floral initiation on the inflorescence apex proceeds acropetally for the disk flowers and basipetally for the ray flowers until the available space is filled. < as lemmas |
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