astelic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

a- +‎ stele +‎ -ic

Adjective[edit]

astelic (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Lacking steles.
    • 1901, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Botany. 2d Series, page 298:
      We see, therefore, that the plants in this Order, although generally astelic, sometimes aggregate all the vascular bundles present in certain of their members into so many steles []
    • 1999, R. J. Harvey Gibson, Outlines Of Botany, page 181:
      The astelic type of Van Tieghem does not result from the separation of the constituent epicotyledonary stele into its constituent bundles, for in the young so-called astelic axis there are no bundles present at all, but a collateral stelar tube []

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