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Definition of Emersed
1. a. Standing out of, or rising above, water.
Definition of Emersed
1. Adjective. (botany of an aquatic plant) That rises above the surface ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emersed
1. standing out of water [adj]
Medical Definition of Emersed
1. Standing out of or rising above a surface as an aquatic plant with flower stalk emersed. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emersed
Literary usage of Emersed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"Leaves of the submerged plant 20-20C, varying in length up to 28', marked with
an elevated ridge on the ventral side; leaves of the emersed plant shorter, ..."
2. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"Leaves alternate, the submerged ones setaceous, the emersed ones narrow, entire.
... Corolla of the emersed flowers with its short tube split almost to the ..."
3. Yacht Architecture: A Treatise on the Laws which Govern the Resistance of by Dixon Kemp (1897)
"0° 10" 20° 80° 40° 60° M° 70° SO1 emersed WEDGE. ... Volume of layer x distance
CG ii towards the emersed side = I« x 3-46 = 484-40 = correction. ..."
4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"emersed leaves entire or slightly serrate. One whorl shows t he tr;» n?it ion
stage from the sub- merged to the emersed form. J natural size. (After Gobel. ..."
5. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1911)
"Leaves in whorls of 4 or 5; emersed ones linear, serrate or the uppermost ...
in. long; flowers chiefly in the axils of the emersed leaves; petals white, ..."
6. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"Flowers only on emersed stems. Bracts longer than the flowers, pinnatifid. ...
Flowers on both emersed and submerged stems. 4. M. humile. ..."
7. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Stamens 4 ; petals rather persistent. * Carpels l-2-ridged on the back. ->-
Flowers on emersed spikes, the floral leaves chiefly modified. 4. ..."
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