scapose

[ skey-pohs ]

adjective

1. having scapes; scape; consisting of a scape.
2. resembling a scape.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scapose¹

First recorded in 1900–05; scape ¹ + -ose ¹

Example Sentences

Heads, etc., nearly as in Taraxacum, but the soft pappus reddish or rusty-color, and surrounded at base by a soft-villous ring.—Mostly annual or biennial herbs, scapose or often branching and leafy below.

From Project Gutenberg

Petals yellow, with nectariferous pit and scale; carpels thin-walled, striate, in an oblong head; scapose, spreading by runners.

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Achenes smooth, 10-ribbed, with distinct beak or none, pappus longer than the achene, white, of copious and unequal rigid capillary bristles.—Perennial scapose herbs, with elongated linear tufted root-leaves, and yellow flowers.

From Project Gutenberg

Low, scapose, perennial by roundish tubers; leaves all radical, pinnatifid.—Prairies;

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