Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, composite; belonging to the order Compositæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.), rare Belonging to the Compositæ; composite.
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- adjective botany Belonging to the
Compositae ;composite .
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Examples
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I know of no case better adapted to show the importance of the laws of correlation and variation, independently of utility and therefore of natural selection, than that of the difference between the outer and inner flowers in some compositous and timbelliferous plants.
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A good compositous twiner, inhabiting moist lands.
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