Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having a tendency to become lateral when it is normally terminal, as the fruit of certain Hepaticæ.
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Examples
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Conelets large, subterminal, or on young trees often pseudolateral.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Conelets subterminal or often pseudolateral, their scales gradually narrowed into a spine.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Conelets usually, if not always, pseudolateral by reason of the summer growth of the branchlets, and attaining in their first season an unusually large size.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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Like the pistillate flower it may be subterminal or lateral, but a subterminal pistillate flower may become a pseudolateral conelet by reason of a summer-growth (fig. 40-a).
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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