laesura
English
Noun
laesura (plural laesurae)
- (biology) The suture line that shows how spores or grains separated.
Derived terms
- laesural
Anagrams
- Lareaus, as a rule
Latin
Participle
laesūra
- inflection of laesūrus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
laesūrā
- ablative feminine singular of laesūrus
References
- “laesura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- laesura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- laesura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette