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astelic

astelic adjective: lacking steles.

Adjective

astelic (not comparable)

  1. Lacking steles.
    • We see, therefore, that the plants in this Order, although generally astelic, sometimes aggregate all the vascular bundles present in certain of their members into so many steles […]1901, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Botany. 2d Series, page 298
    • The astelic type of Van Tieghem does not result from the separation of the constituent epicotyledonary stele into its constituent bundles, for in the young so-called astelic axis there are no bundles present at all, but a collateral stelar tube […]1999, R. J. Harvey Gibson, Outlines Of Botany, page 181

Origin of astelic

From a- + stele + -ic.

Questions about astelic

What does astelic mean?
Astelic means lacking steles.
What part of speech is astelic?
Astelic is an adjective.

Words near astelic in the dictionary

  1. asteisms
  2. asteismus
  3. asteistic
  4. astelia
  5. astelias
  6. astelic
  7. astelioid
  8. astelioids
  9. Astellian
  10. astely
  11. astemizole

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