Astelic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Astelic is an adjective meaning (botany) Lacking steles.
Meaning
(botany) Lacking steles.
Example Sentences
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 […]
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 […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include styleless, stigmaless, stamenless, asterless, astomatal, steepleless.
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