Crossword-Solution: LIGULE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ligule | n. | The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass. |
| Ligule | n. | A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositae. |
| Ligule | n. | A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “LIGULE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Outgrowth from the base of a grass blade | 1 answer |
| membranous outgrowth between the leaf blade and sheath | 1 answer |
| ANY APPENDAGE TO A PLANT THAT IS SHAPED LIKE A STRAP | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with LIGULE (5)
The _leaf-blade_ is short or long, varying from 1/2 to 2-1/2 inches in length and 3/16 to 5/16 inch in breadth, convolute when young, lanceolate to broadly ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, upper surface glabrous, and the lower glabrous or with a few scattered tubercle-based hairs; margins are very minutely serrate; base is cordate, amplexicaul with a few long slender hairs (sometimes tubercle-based), just close to the white patch on both sides on the margin of the blade about the ligule.
The _leaf-sheath_ is finely striate, keeled, thinly pubescent with the margins ciliate near the ligule.
Pedicel 1/3 as long as the sessile spikelets; nodes usually glabrous; ligule usually short and membranous.
The _leaf-blade_ is glaucous green, 1 to 5 inches long, 1/8 to 3/8 inch broad, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, flat, rounded or subcordate, and amplexicaul at base, scaberulous throughout, with tubercle-based deciduous hairs on both the surfaces, and bearded at the base above the ligule; the margin is thickened, serrulate, ciliate with bulbous-based deciduous hairs.
INDEX (Small i denotes Figure Numbers.) A Aerial roots, 6, 8i, 9i Agrostideæ, 44, 220 Aleurone layer, 18 Andropogoneæ, 44, 138 Andropogon, 15, 182 inflorescence, 13 annulatus, 204, 160i, 161i asper, 195, 155i, 156i caricosus, 201, 159i section of stem, 26, 33i, 34i contortus, 5, 207, 162i, 163i ligule, 13i foveolatus, 185, 148i, 149i monticola, 199, 158i pertusus, 5, 191, 152i, 153i pumilus, 188, 150i, 151i Schoenanthus var.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2012).