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Definition of Subtending
1. subtend [v] - See also: subtend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subtending
Literary usage of Subtending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"Cymes sessile ; drupes more than 1 сш. loup. Leaves subtending the inflorescence
mostly caudate-acuminate . 18. ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... both sides. usually only uppermost pair connate into a disk and subtending
the simple ... subtending ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"... (about an inch or less long), shorter than the inter- nodes : panicle virgate
and racemose, loose : peduncles longer than the subtending floral leaves, ..."
4. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... and with subtending bracts conspicuous or foliaceous ; or whether, as in Elder
and Hydrangea (Fig. 293, and in Fig. 273), the bracts arc minute and ..."
5. Turbines, Theoretical and Practical: With Numerical Examples and by De Volson Wood (1896)
"c(2 = grA, the arc subtending one bucket at exit. K, normal section of passage,
bf being its projection, it being assumed that the passages and buckets are ..."
6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray (1868)
"Fertile flowers several, spiked in a sort of loose terminal catkin, with small
deciduous bracts, each subtending a pair of flowers, as in Ostrya; ..."
7. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"This angle represents the leeway ; and the amount of ground lost lo leeward in
я given distance sailed is shown by the side of the triangle subtending this ..."
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