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Definition of Ptyxis
1. n. The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.
Definition of Ptyxis
1. Noun. (botany) The way in which an individual leaf is folded in the bud. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ptyxis
1. a type of leaf folding in a bud [n PTYXISES or PTYXES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptyxis
Literary usage of Ptyxis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The ptyxis of the leaves depends in my view partly upon the distribution of the
growth in the leaf-development, and partly upon the amount of space ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Wing-footed, it petiole wing-margined, &c. ptyxis. Greek name for folding, as of
leaves in a bud : 132, 133. ..."
3. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"The ptyxis (or folding, &c.) of an individual leaf, of which the foregoing
modifications are the principal, should be distinguished from the arrangement in ..."
4. The Classical Journal (1816)
"... fraternity/ and ' the members of that fraternity/ as at all uncommon or improper.
Carolus Neapolis, in his " Ana- ptyxis ad Ovidii Fast." II, 266. ..."
5. The Monsee Fragments by George Allison Hench, Augustine, Isidore, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (1890)
"There are no examples of the special Upper German ana- ptyxis between rg, rk,
rb, rp, rf, rm and rl. 5. ASSIMILATION. This phenomenon is extremely rare in ..."
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