Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the folding or configuration of a single part in a leaf- or flowerbud: opposed to vernation and estivation, the disposition of the parts conjointly.
Wiktionary
- n. botany The way in which an individual leaf is folded in the bud.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.
Etymologies
- From New Latin ptyxis, from Ancient Greek πτύξις (ptuksis, "a folding") (Wiktionary)
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chained_bear This is *so close* to being on the And Sometimes Y list.
So close... Feb 2, 2007
chained_bear 1880 GRAY Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 132 note, Ptyxis...is coming into use as a general term for the folding, etc., of single parts. Ibid. 133 The Ptyxis (or folding) of an individual leaf...should be distinguished from the arrangement in the bud of the leaves of a circle or spiral in respect to each other. Feb 2, 2007