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Definition of Heterophyllous
1. a. Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.
Definition of Heterophyllous
1. Adjective. (botany) Having leaves of different types upon the same plant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heterophyllous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heterophyllous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterophyllous
Literary usage of Heterophyllous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1901)
"The apparently heterophyllous character, on which this conclusion is based, is
not, however, a decisive argument, heterophyllous species also occurring in ..."
2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... is evidence that small organisms, corresponding in habit to the heterophyllous
... as well as in the heterophyllous arrangement of the leaves and in the ..."
3. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1920)
""From time immemorial" common comment in the South, where these heterophyllous
oaks are abundant, is that they are willow oak X red oak hybrids. ..."
4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"The adaptability of many water plants is well seen in their heterophyllous
characteristics. For example, the water buttercup (Ranunculus ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"Putrescent: cells of sporocarp vesicular, non-lactiferous: pileus fleshy, thin,
slimy-viscid, convex or depressed, striate : lamellae adnate, heterophyllous ..."
6. Catalogue of the African Plants by William Philip Hiern, Alfred Barton Rendle, Friedrich Martin Josef Welwitsch (1898)
"Sometimes heterophyllous, with a few cordiform smaller leaves in addition to the
ordinary ones. ... Sometimes heterophyllous as in ..."
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