Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, helmet-shaped, as the upper sepal in the genus Aconitum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite.
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- adjective botany Shaped like a
helmet ; applied to acorolla with a broad, helmet-shaped upperpetal , as inaconite .
Etymologies
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Latin cassis helmet.
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mollusque commented on the word cassideous
Helmet-shaped.
January 8, 2008