Cespitose

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Botany Growing in tufts or clumps.
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  • adj. Having the form of a piece of turf, i.e. many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In botany, growing in low tufty patches.
  • In entomology, matted; tangled: applied to a surface when it is thickly covered with long and irregularly commingled hairs. Also cespitous.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts
    • Equivalent
    ungregarious   
    Variant
    caespitose   
     
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