Branches with pedicel and spikelets drooping and not appressed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It often extends beyond the insertion of the terminal flower and its glume, and then lies hidden appressed to the palea. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It is a herb with a rosette of fleshy, oblong leaves, 1 to 3 in. long, appressed to the ground, of a pale colour and with a sticky surface. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Leaves may be sclerophyllous or coated on the undersurface with appressed hairs to conserve water, and they remain evergreen throughout an extended dry season. From Wordnik.com. [Yunnan Plateau subtropical evergreen forests] Reference
The flowers are small (though larger than those of many cultivated yams), about 3 mm long, closely appressed to the pedicel in long axillary or terminal racemes. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 37] Reference
Cones relatively smaller, the apophyses appressed 2. cembra. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
Of the Germans; if the lips be appressed together, as in forming the letter. From Wordnik.com. [Note XV] Reference
= -- Buds conical, 1/4 inch long, mostly appressed, tips of scales brownish. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
= -- Buds small, mostly appressed near the ends of the shoots, tapering at both ends. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
If the retracted tongue be appressed to the middle of the palate, as in forming the letters K. From Wordnik.com. [Note XV] Reference
If the point of the tongue be appressed to the forepart of the palate, as in forming the letters. From Wordnik.com. [Note XV] Reference
Many varieties are relatively flat, appressed to the surface, whereas some have curled or almost leafy forms. From Wordnik.com. [Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories] Reference
Flowers in appressed panicles, root perennial, grows from twelve to fifteen inches high -- flowers in May and June. 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
An element, perhaps supraoccipital, terminates in a free appressed apex on each side of the median pos - terior region. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
I have found it at Ithaca, the surface of the pileus hairy, with beautiful, triangular, soft, appressed, purplish scales. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
The buds on the twigs arc narrowly conical, appressed, usually alternate, with at least one pair of opposite buds on each twig. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
If the lower lip be appressed to the edges of the upper teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the sibilant letter. From Wordnik.com. [Note XV] Reference
Tethyshadros the most 'reduced' hand of any iguanodontian - and the three remaining metacarpals are long, slender, and closely appressed. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
If the lower lip be appressed to the edges of the upper teeth, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the sibilant letter F is formed. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
= -- Buds 1/8-1/4 inch long, reddish-brown and lustrous, usually smooth, ovate, acute, often slightly incurved at apex, the upper often appressed. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
If the back part of the tongue be appressed to the pendulous curtain of the palate and uvula; and air from behind be forced between them; the sibilant letter. From Wordnik.com. [Note XV] Reference
If the point of the tongue be appressed to the forepart of the palate, as in forming the letter T, and air from the mouth be forced between them, the sibilant letter. From Wordnik.com. [Note XV] Reference
= -- Buds sharp-pointed, reddish-brown, minutely pubescent, terminal 1/4 inch long, lateral 1/8 inch, appressed, the inner scales lengthening with the growth of the shoot. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
If the back part of the tongue be appressed to the pendulous curtain of the palate and uvula; and air from behind be forced between them; the sibilant letter H is produced. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
3 short, nearly equal diverging lobes: nut obovate-oblong, wider than its wings; upper part of seed-body usually appressed-pubescent. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
Branches with spikelets and pedicels appressed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Cone-scales appressed 7. From Wordnik.com. [The Genus Pinus] Reference
= -- Buds 3/4 inch long, appressed or slightly divergent, conical, slender, acute, resin-coated, sticky, fragrant when opening. From Wordnik.com. [Handbook of the Trees of New England] Reference
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