Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having many series; arranged in many rows; multifarious; polystichous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.
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- adjective zoology, botany Arranged in
multiple rows
Etymologies
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Examples
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In their disposition they are either uniserial, biserial or multiserial.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The transcendentalists, of course, conceived evolution, whether real or ideal, as a uniserial process, whereas Haeckel conceived it as multiserial and divergent.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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On multinodal shoots they are often multiserial, appearing on two or more nodes of the same spring-shoot (fig. 33).
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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It is recognized by its smooth branches, binate leaves and numerous, often multiserial, clusters of persistent, often closed, cones.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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