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5 words match “STRAP-SHAPED”

STRAP-SHAPED a.

Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.

LIGULATE; LIGULATED a.

Like a bandage, or strap; strap-shaped.

A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositæ.

h composite plants as the aster, goldenrod, daisy, and sunflower. They have an elongated, strap-shaped corolla, while the corollas of the disk flowers are tubular and five-lobed. -- Ray point (Geom.), the common point of a pencil of rays. -- Röntgen ray ( (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted va…

SEMIFLOSCULE n.

A floscule, or florest, with its corolla prolonged into a strap-shaped petal; -- called also semifloret.