Epigeal meaning

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Living or occurring on or near the surface of the ground.
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Living or occurring on or near the surface of the ground.
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(botany) Of or relating to seed germination in which the cotyledons emerge above the surface of the ground after germination.
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(zool.) Living or developing on the exposed surface of the earth or in shallow water.
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(botany) Of or relating to seed germination in which the cotyledons emerge above the surface of the ground after germination.
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(biology) Living near the surface of the ground.
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(botany, of a cotyledon) Emerging above the surface of the ground after being germinated.
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Origin of epigeal

  • From Greek epigeios on the earth epi- epi- gē earth

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • epi- +‎ -geal

    From Wiktionary

Epigeal Sentence Examples

  • It has a short swollen stem base, long stout adventitious roots and strong leafy, epigeal stolons that root at the nodes.

  • The seven series of Monocotyledons represent a sequence beginning with the most complicated epigynous orders, such as Orchideae and Scitamineae, and passing through the petaloid hypogynous orders (series Coronarieae) of which Liliaceae is the representative to Juncaceae and the palms (series Calycinae) where the perianth Ioses its petaloid character and thence to the Aroids, screw-pines and albuminous Dicotyledons the cotyledons act as the absorbents of the reserve-food of the seed and are commonly brought above ground (epigeal), either withdrawn from the seed-coat or carrying it upon them, and then they serve as the first green organs of the plant.

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