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terms | rosulate |

As a noun terms

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As an adjective rosulate is

(botany|of leaves and bracts) arranged in small rose-like clusters.

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Noun

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (botany, of leaves and bracts) Arranged in small rose-like clusters.
  • * 1874 , The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches , Volume 5, page 326,
    • It appears to claim a very close relationship to the preceding species, differing chiefly in the tiny leaves being rather more rosulate than caudiculate, and in not being adpressed, but rather the reverse; its petals, also, are narrower.
  • * 1950 , Gilbert Westacott Reynolds, The Aloes of South Africa , page 494,
    • In young plants, the leaves are often more or less arranged in four vertical ranks, but become more rosulate with age.
  • * 1971 , Hans Bornman, David S. Hardy, Aloes of the South African Veld , page 199,
    • differs from the typical form in having smaller, shorter more rosulate milky-green leaves, shorter sheaths, greenish-yellow buds, straighter flowers and narrower more or less unicoloured yellowish racemes.