cauline

[ kaw-lin, -lahyn ]

adjective

, Botany.

1. of or relating to a stem, especially pertaining to or arising from the upper part of a stem.

cauline

/ ˈkɔːlɪn; -laɪn /

adjective

1. relating to or growing from a plant stem

Word History and Origins

Origin of cauline¹

1750–60; < Latin caul ( is ) a stalk, stem + -ine ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of cauline¹

C18: from New Latin caulīnus, from Latin caulis stem

Example Sentences

Stouter and more rigid, leaves of radical shoots thicker, linear, hoary, the cauline puberulent or glabrous, calyx canescent.

From Project Gutenberg

Linn�us, Flora Suecica, 789, says that the flowers of it which have perfect corolla and full scent often bear no seed, but that the later 'cauline' blossoms, without petals, are fertile.

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The cauline leaves are stalked and diverge widely, which habit gives its name to the plant.

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Seeds not so broad as the partition, in two more or less distinct rows in each cell, at least when young; strict and very leafy-stemmed biennials; cauline leaves partly clasping by a sagittate base.

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Involucral leaves like the cauline but more equally lobed; perianth obovate, dorsally compressed, bilabiate, the mouth truncate, entire or toothed, decurved.

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