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Definition of Scorpioid
1. a. Having the inflorescence curved or circinate at the end, like a scorpion's tail.
Definition of Scorpioid
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or appearing like a scorpion. ¹
2. Adjective. (botany) Resembling a scorpion's tail, as in a scorpioid cyme; circinate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scorpioid
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Scorpioid
1. Of a cymose inflorescence, branching alternately on one side and then the other. Compare: helicoid. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scorpioid
Literary usage of Scorpioid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Likening them to a scorpion when coiled, the earlier botanists designated this
as scorpioid. As the coil is a helix, it has also been named helicoid.1 The ..."
2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"scorpioid or Helicoid Cymes, of various sorts, are forms of determinate
inflorescence (often puzzling to the student) in which one half of the ramification ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"169 the same scorpioid form of ... are usually regarded as true scorpioid cymes.
... scorpioid Cyme (axes unilateral, two rows). ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the scorpioid cyme the flowers arc arranged alternately in a double row along
one side of the false axis (fig. 19), the bracts when developed forming a ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the scorpioid cyme the flowers are arranged alternately in a double row along
one side of tlie false axis (fig. 19), the bracts when developed forming a ..."
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