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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