Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a geniculate manner; in the form of a knee or knees: as, antennæ geniculately bent.
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Examples
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Stems are very slender, densely tufted, geniculately ascending or erect, 3 to 8 inches long.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The main stem is underground, rhizomiferous, and covered with scale leaves; branches are many arising in tufts, leafy, procumbent at base and afterwards geniculately ascending and ending in inflorescence, occasionally rooting at the nodes and varying in length from 2 to 3 feet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Stems are densely tufted, branched, geniculately ascending, erect or the branches scandent, solid, smooth and polished, 1 to 7 feet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The stems are erect, tufted, geniculately ascending from a creeping base rooting at the nodes, quite glabrous, varying in length from 4 inches to 4 feet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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This is a small tufted annual grass with simple or branched slender stems spreading at the base, and sometimes geniculately ascending and rooting at the lower nodes, 6 to 12 inches long.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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This grass is an annual with slender leafy stems, branching at the base, prostrate at first and then geniculately ascending, terminating in inflorescences and varying in length from 3 to 15 inches.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The aerial branches are tufted, erect or decumbent and geniculately ascending when in flower, much branched from the base, 6 to 24 inches long (under favourable conditions may reach even 3 to 4 feet in length).
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Stems are erect or geniculately ascending, usually short, leafy and branched below, glabrous and shining, 1/2 to 2 feet long.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Stems are erect or geniculately ascending from a creeping root-stock, varying in length from 2 to 4 feet.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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This is a slender annual grass with geniculately ascending stems, radiating on all sides.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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