Sentence Examples

  • Opposite some of these leaves springs a tendril, by aid of which the plant climbs.
  • Labrusca there is a tendril opposite to each leaf, so that the podium bears only a single leaf.
  • This new podium, now in a direct line with its predecessor, produces leaves and ends in its turn in a tendril or inflorescence.
  • Metamorphosis.It has already been pointed out that each kind of member of the body may present a variety of forms. For example, a stem may be a tree-trunk, or a twining stem, or a tendril, or a thorn, or a creeping rhizome, or a tuber; a leaf may be a green foliage-leaf, or a scale protecting a bud, or a tendril, or a pitcher, or a floral leaf, either sepal, petal, stamen or carpel (sporophyll); a root may be a fibrous root, or a swollen tap-root like that of the beet or the turnip. All these various forms are organs discharging some special function, and are examples of what Wolff called modification, and Goethe metamorphosis.
  • Each podium consists of a portion of the stem bearing one or more leaves, each with an axillary bud or buds, and terminating in a tendril or an inflorescence.
 
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