nonpunctuate

Adjective

nonpunctuate (not comparable)

1. Not punctuate.
   • Gaudens (Oenothera). A gene complex characterized by genes for green buds, nonpunctuate leaves, white nerves, broad leaves, and red flecks on the rosette leaves (see Velans).1962, W[illard] Ralph Singleton, “Glossary”, in Elementary Genetics, Princeton, N.J.: D[avid] Van Nostrand Company, →OCLC, page 456
   • The similarity of the punctae suggests that all endopunctate forms may be related in their evolutionary origin and that perhaps an endopunctate condition was inherited from a single primitive ancestral stock. Such a possibility seems to be decisively denied, however, because the different groups of...1969, J[ames] Marvin Weller, “Brachiopods”, in The Course of Evolution (McGraw-Hill Series in Population Biology), New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, chapter 4 (Lophophorate...