cespitose
English
Alternative forms
- caespitose
Etymology
Latin caespes (“turf”).
Adjective
cespitose (comparative more cespitose, superlative most cespitose)
- (botany) Having the form of a piece of turf, i.e. many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cespitose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- tosspiece
Italian
Adjective
cespitose
- feminine plural of cespitoso