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adj. - (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts.

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Usage examples (4)
  • I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other.
  • It is easily recognized by its dense cespitose habit, the deep blood red juice, the hollow stem, and the crenate or denticulate sterile margin of the cap.
  • The season was rainy, and the plants appeared each day during quite a long period, sometimes large numbers of them covering a small area, but they were not clustered nor...
  • Berkeley and Curtis report it as cespitose.
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