exserted

[ ek-sur-tid ]

adjective

, Biology.

1. projecting beyond the surrounding parts, as a stamen.

Word History and Origins

Origin of exserted¹

First recorded in 1810–20; exsert + -ed ²

Example Sentences

We identified three major loci and two minor loci responsible for exserted stigma, and found that all the five QTLs were located within domestication sweeps.

From Nature

Palpi exserted, approximating, covered with scales, but without hairs, the last joint naked, slender, acute.

From Project Gutenberg

Our species have the petals 2-cleft or obcordate, the parts of the flower always in fives, and the exserted pods more or less curved.

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Included, inclosed by the surrounding organs; not exserted.

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They are hypogynous, and have long and very delicate filaments, and large, linear or oblong two-celled anthers, dorsifixed and ultimately very versatile, deeply indented at each end, and commonly exserted and pendulous.

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