Rachis of spikes narrow, filiform, terete or angular. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The grain is fusiform, terete and within the nut-like polished hardened glume. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It may be rounded, oval, ellipsoidal, narrow and cylindrical, oblong terete or furrowed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Grain is small, fusiform, terete and enclosed in the nut-like polished and hardened first glume. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Cushions very close together, composed of short, white and yellowish bristles, and stout, terete spines, 1 in. or more long, set on little tubercles. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
The first glume is terete, or dorsally compressed or channelled, coriaceous and at length hardened, margins incurved, dark brown to almost black when old. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Branches numerous, composed of long, terete joints, rather thicker than a goose-quill, glaucous-green, slightly roughened on the surface, with depressions for the dot-like cushions. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
A well-marked species in the size of its mammae, or tubercles, which are at least 1 in. long by 1/3 in. in diameter, terete, slightly curved, and narrowed to a pointed apex, the texture being very soft and watery. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
Portulaca, with terete leaves, grows sparingly on the mild rich soil. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
A new Hakea, with long thin terete leaves (different from H. lorea) and Grevillea chrysodendron, grew along the creek. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Ranunculus inundatus; Eryngium with terete simple leaves, of which the horses are fond; Prasophyllum elatum, sweetly scented. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
It is known, however, that some terete-leaved orchids are capable of withstanding frost, and some often do, in their natural environment. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
An Acacia, with long drooping, almost terete leaves, grew along the river; and Crinums grew in patches amongst the everlasting flowers, on a sandy soil. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845] Reference
Stem smooth, erect, terete, surmounted by a rather spreading crowded panicle, and whose spikelets are ovate, acute and crowded on the branchlets, from two to five flowered. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
N.S. Shell terete; spire composed of many whirls, traversed spirally by a deeply impressed line, dividing it into two unequal parts; the lower has three or four interrupted spiral lines, the upper, none. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
It has an erect, terete, glabrous stem, with setaceous leaves and a diffuse panicle, whose branches are somewhat verticilate; glumes unequal; paleæ equal, exterior one pubescent at base, and bearing also an awn. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Grain is oblong terete and free. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
A utrinque aperta terete fenfltn attenuati apercura iiiarginaca, arenac) i; ranit fubtiliflimis. From Wordnik.com. [Caroli a Linné ... Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis ..] Reference
Grain is oblong, terete, free. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
1/6 inch; pedicel slender, terete 1. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Thread-like; long, slender, and terete. From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
Co?,. terete i) ee tsal tetett acmintetrb?. From Wordnik.com. [Les termes de la ley, or, Certaine difficult and obscure words and termes of the common lawes and statutes of this realme now in vse expounded and explained] Reference
Follicles solitary, upto 8 x 0.7 cm, terete, lanceolate, straight or slightly curved, glabrous. From Wordnik.com. [Find Me A Cure] Reference
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