Definition of Prophylls

1. prophyll [n] - See also: prophyll

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prophylls

prophetizes
prophetizing
prophetlike
prophetship
prophetships
prophoric
prophragma
prophragmata
prophylactic
prophylactic device
prophylactically
prophylactics
prophylaxes
prophylaxis
prophyll
prophylls (current term)
propiconazole
propidene
propidine
propidium
propination
propine
propined
propines
propining
propinquent
propinquities
propinquity
propinyl
propinyls

Literary usage of Prophylls

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"The earliest foliage leaves (prophylls) show a slight advance toward the bifacial condition, though normally they are dorsiventral. ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"We limit ourselves just now entirely to the vegetative region. Sporophylls will be discussed when the flowers are spoken of. i. prophylls. ..."

3. The Physiology of Plants: A Treatise Upon the Metabolism and Sources of by Wilhelm Pfeffer (1900)
"It is sufficient to mention carpels, stamens, floral leaves, prophylls, tendrils, thorns, &c., to realize how manifold are the functional and structural ..."

4. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1912)
"... the production of rudimentary or reduced leaves, including prophylls, bud scales, bracts, and other less common conditions, such as the scale leaves ..."

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