cespitose

American  

[ses-pi-tohs] / ˈsɛs pɪˌtoʊs /

Or caespitose

adjective

Botany.

1. forming mats; growing in dense tufts.

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cespitose British  

/ ˈsɛspɪˌtəʊs /

adjective

1. a variant spelling (esp US) of caespitose

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Other Word Forms

• cespitosely adverb

Etymology

Origin of cespitose

1785–95; < New Latin cespitōsus, equivalent to Latin cēspit- (stem of cēspes, variant of caespes turf ) + -ōsus -ose ¹

Example Sentences

The cespitose masses are often a foot broad.

From North American Species of Cactus by Coulter, John Merle

Low and glabrous, mostly cespitose perennials, with pinnately compound leaves and white flowers.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Glaucous, sometimes slightly puberulent, often low and cespitose, the rigid branches angled; leaves narrow, erect, usually with stipular glands; flowers large; sepals lanceolate, glandular-serrulate; styles united; capsule ovoid, 5-valved.—Minn. to Kan., and southward.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

It does not grow in a cespitose manner with us.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha