Definition of Terete. Meaning of Terete. Synonyms of Terete

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Definition of Terete

Terete
Terete Te*rete", a. [L. teres, -etis, rounded off, properly, rubbed off, fr. terere to rub.] Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants.

Meaning of Terete from wikipedia

- Look up terete in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Terete is a term in botany used to describe a cross section that is circular, or like a distorted circle...
- The teres major muscle is a muscle of the upper limb. It attaches to the sca**** and the humerus and is one of the seven scapulohumeral muscles. It is...
- leaves are about 60 cm (24 in) long, simple, broad, and glabrous, with a terete petiole that is 25–60 cm (9.8–23.6 in) long and grooved at the base in the...
- California Terete raceme of Kniphofia shown together with a cross section of a peduncle. A: Inflorescence; B: Terete peduncle; C: Cross section of a terete peduncle...
- leaves, which are shorter than the scapes, are also hollow and tubular, or terete (round in cross-section). The flowers are pale purple, and star-shaped with...
- an order in the brown algae (Phaeophyceae). Members of this order have terete or ligulate (flat) pinnately branched thalli attached by discoid holdfasts...
- dark purple Irregularly obovate to elliptic, widening con****uously from terete style segments Con****uous, to 15 cm Western part of Western Cape: Silvermine...
- to eastern Australia. It is a small, erect perennial with more or less terete leaves, bi****ual flowers arranged singly or in pairs, and a stiff, cottony...
- and columnar cacti consisting of indeterminate branches or determinate terete or spherical segments. Synapomorphies of Opuntioideae include small deciduous...
- ("plantain with pubescent ovate-lanceolate leaves, a cylindric spike and a terete scape"), which we know today as Plantago media. Such "polynomial names"...