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Definition of Cernuous
1. Adjective. Having branches or flower heads that bend downward. "Lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Unerect
Definition of Cernuous
1. a. Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.
Definition of Cernuous
1. Adjective. (botany) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; said of a bud, flower, or fruit, or the capsule of a moss. ¹
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Definition of Cernuous
1. drooping or nodding [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cernuous
Literary usage of Cernuous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1833)
"... Odes- sana of Dr. FISCHER. elongated and cernuous when bearing the fruit.
Flowers yellow. Calyx of six, spreading, elliptical, leaflets. ..."
2. Supplement to the English Botany of the Late Sir J. E. Smith and Mr. Sowerby by William Jackson Hooker, William Borrer, James Sowerby (1834)
"Capsules oblong, cernuous, pale reddish brown, covered with a glaucous bloom.
Three times as large as Bryum cuspidatum, and distinguishable from that ..."
3. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"... disappearing below the summit, capsule ovate cernuous, lid rostrate. ...
very faintly two-nerved at the base, capsule oblong cernuous, lid conical. ..."
4. Flora Devoniensis: Or A Descriptive Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild in the by John Pike Jones, H.j.f Kingston (1829)
"H. cordifolium, leaves loosely set, cordato-ovate, obtuse, concave, entire, nerved
nearly to the point; caps. oblong, curved, cernuous ; lid conical. Muse. ..."
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