Sentence example with the word 'midrib'

midrib

Definition n. the vein in the center of a leaf

Last update: August 25, 2015


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They are shrubby plants climbing over surrounding vegetation by means of tendrillike prolongations of the midrib of the leaf beyond the leaf-tip.   [Please select]

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The ribs radiate from the spinal column like the veins of a leaf from its midrib (Illustration 39).   [Please select]

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In order to do this it weakens the midrib at the base of the leaf by biting nearly through it.   [Please select]

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It then gnaws off the blade of the leaf at its tip end, leaving little else but the midrib.   [Please select]

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The leaves are rolled towards the midrib on the upper face (_involute_).   [Please select]

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In the Elm, Magnolia, and Tulip-tree, it is _conduplicate_, that is, folded on the midrib with the inner face within.   [Please select]

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In the Balm of Gilead, the leaf is _involute_, rolled towards the midrib on the upper face.   [Please select]

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