auxocaulous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Exhibiting further enlargement of segments formed by secondary growth after their initial formation, so that filaments have a conspicuously greater diameter than the apical cell that generated them.

Word forms

auxocaulous

Etymology

From auxo- (“growth”) + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”) + -ous.

Antonyms

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