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Definition of Runcinate leaf
1. Noun. A leaf having incised margins with the lobes or teeth curved toward the base; as a dandelion leaf.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Runcinate Leaf
Literary usage of Runcinate leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Popular Description of the Indigenous Plants of Lanarkshire: With a by William Patrick (1831)
"runcinate leaf, like the leaf of the dandelion. SAGITTATE, arrow-shaped.
Salver-shaped, a blossom of one petal, the lower part tubular, the upper flat and ..."
2. Class Book of Botany: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable by John Hutton Balfour (1852)
"... their comparative lengths in different parts determine in a great measure the
contour of the leaf. The following Fig. 271. runcinate leaf of Dandelion ..."
3. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"The runcinate leaf, or with the sharp segments reflected downwards. FIG. 8.—An
enlarged floret of the above. a. The Botched floret. 6. The tube of anthers. ..."
4. A Manual of Structural Botany: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by Henry Hurd Rusby (1911)
"runcinate leaf of dandelion. 559. Lyrate leaf of barbarea. (Fig. 549, a), although
frequently very short, does exist. In the family Leguminosae, ..."
5. Popular field botany: Containing a Familiar and Technical Description of the by Agnes Catlow (1848)
"... with deeply cut leaves, the terminal lobe being very large, and the rest
pointing rather towards the stalk, which forms what is called a runcinate leaf. ..."
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