Ligule Definition

Ligule Sentence Examples

• The rice plant is an annual grass with long linear glabrous leaves, each provided with a long sharply pointed ligule.

• Melica uniflora has in addition to the ligule, a green erect tongue-like process, from the line of junction of the edges of the sheath.

• Some Commelinaceae and Marantaceae approach grasses in foliage; the leaves of Allium, &c., possess a ligule; the habit of some palms reminds one of the bamboos; and Juncaceae and a few Liliaceae possess an inconspicuous scarious perianth.

• The simple leaves, which are of small size and do not possess a ligule, are arranged spirally around the branched stem in the majority of the species.

• The simple, uni-nerved leaves have a ligule near the base; the base of the ligule is somewhat sharply marked off from the other tissues of the leaf.