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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the state of being aphyllous; an entire suppression of leaves, as ordinarily occurs in most Cactaceæ, etc.
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“The terms aphylly, meiophylly, and meiotaxy may be employed, according as the individual leaves are altogether wanting, or with reference to the diminished number of parts in a whorl, or a decrease in the verticils.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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