Meaning of sub-floral | Babel Free

Definitions

Not quite floral.

not-comparable

Examples

“In some flowers, such as Convolvulus, Anemone, &c., the exact nature of the sub-floral leaves is uncertain, 110. it is open⟳ to doubt⟳ whether the organs in question⟳ are bracts or leaves pertaining to the inflorescence, or whether they are really parts of the flower.”

“In Malope Irifida, for example, the three parts of the epicalyx represent⟳ a sub-floral bract with its two stipules ; in Kitaibelia viti/olia, the six-parted epicalyx consists (according to Payer) of two such sub-floral leaves with their four stipules.”

“Pax (1385) had considered Ascolepis as possessing a pair of sub-floral bractlets fused dorsally.”

“A combination of the 'agroinfection' maize streak construct and their sub-floral injection technique might enable one to take⟳ the transformation to seed.”

“Color is used sparingly and in sub-floral arrangements added in pots and planters.”

“Above the veneer was painted plaster, with decorations of geometric architectural and sub-floral motifs in green, yellow, red and black on white ground — non-figurative subjects be it noted.”

“But its ornamentation is simpler than some of the latter, being a series of relief elements of sub-floral design⟳ arranged repetitively around the entire circumference, very like⟳ one of the gold torcs from Fenouilletin the Haute-Garonne (Jacobsthal,1944, no. 62).”

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