lepidote

lep·i·dote

(lĕp′ĭ-dōt′)

adj.

Covered with small, scurfy scales.

[Greek lepidōtos, scaly, from lepis, lepid-, scale.]

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lepidote

(ˈlɛpɪˌdəʊt)

adj

(Biology) biology covered with scales, scaly leaves, or spots

[C19: via New Latin lepidōtus, from Greek, from lepis scale]

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lep•i•dote

(ˈlɛp ɪˌdoʊt)

adj. Bot.

covered with scurfy scales or scaly spots.

[1830–40; < New Latin lepidōtus < Greek lepidōtós scaly]

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lepidote - rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf

leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy

biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms

rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"

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In addition, the number of mucous cells in the scaleless area of a fishes' body was more than the lepidote area, as seen in Harris & Hunt (1975) study that shows that fins have significantly fewer mucous cells than the rest of the body.

The Structure of the Skin, Types and Distribution of Mucous Cell of Yangtze Sturgeon (Acipenser dabryanus)/La Estructura de la Piel, los Tipos y Distribucion de las Celulas Mucosas del Esturion Yangtze (Acipenser dabryanus)

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The family Bignoniaceae in the Environmental Protection Area Serra Branca, Raso da Catarina, Jeremoabo, Bahia, Brazil/A familia Bignoniaceae na APA Serra Branca, Raso da Catarina, Jeremoabo, Bahia, Brasil

The evidence includes complete Lepidote fossils found near the dinosaurs in Chewore.

On the antiquity of the Zambezi River, its rifts, and its wilderness

Lithophytic rosulated herbs up to 2 m high; leaves fleshy, leaf sheaths straw colored and brown on the adaxial surface, pale brown to brown on the abaxial surface; inflorescence terminal; pistillate inflorescences twice branched; staminate inflorescences thrice branched, forming large panicles with up to 97 primary branches; peduncles sparsely lepidote; staminate flowers greenish white, tightly arranged in the apical portion of primary branches and loosely arranged in the basal portion, pistillate flowers greenish brown, loosely arranged, appearing sub-whorled, secondary branches longer than the primary bracts, filaments in the male flowers 3-5.5 mm long, anthers 1-2 mm long, green; capsules ovoid, brown, 1-1.3 cm long, 3-7 mm in diameter.

Una nueva especie de Hechtia (Bromeliaceae; Hechtioideae) del estado de Morelos, Mexico

Sepals lanceolate, (4-)5(-7)-nerved, 4.8-5.5 x 1.2 mm densely lepidote on the distal half.

A valid name for the taxon known as Tillandsia bryoides auct. (bromeliaceae)/Un nombre valido para el taxon conocido como Tillandsia bryoides auct. (Bromeliaceae)

Leaves 17 to 20 in number, coriaceous, densely rosulate, suberect, forming a funnelform rosette; sheaths ovate, 12-17 x 9.5-10 cm, inconspicuously lepidote, green toward the apex, strongly coriaceous; blades narrowly subtriangular-lanceolate, not narrowed at the base, 15-24 x 5-6 cm, green, inconspicously and sparsely white-lepidote mainly adaxially to glabrous, nerved, suberect with recurved apex, apex acuminate.

Alcantarea compacta, a new species from the grasslands on rocky soils of Minas Gerais State

The species present distinct basal rhizomes, lepidote leaves, smaller spines on leaf margin, inflorescence sometimes compound, yellow floral bracts with smaller marginal spines, and smaller flowers.

Early selection of elite clones of an ornamental bromeliad in vitro/ Selecao precoce in vitro de clones elite de uma bromelia ornamental

Bill Hicks, a longtime rhododendron enthusiast from the Puget Sound area, will present a program on "Lepidote Rhododendrons" at 7 p.m.

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Inflorescence is central, a 1-pinnate erect panicle, with pink-white lepidote bracts, flowers have a light purple or lilac corolla while the stamens and stigma are exerted.

It takes two to tango: self incompatibility in the bromeliad Tillandsia streptophylla (Bromeliaceae) in Mexico

Subtitled Volume I, Lepidotes, the book covers the scaly (lepidote) rhododendrons, which include about half of all species, including those Maddenii kinds that flourish in the California fog belt.