Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

ensanchadas y abrazaderas en la base (bot., zool.)

English translation:

narrowed and constricted at the base (bot., zool.)

Added to glossary by John Speese
Sep 7, 2007 01:02
16 yrs ago
Spanish term

ensanchadas y abrazaderas en la base

Spanish to English Science Botany
Es de una descripción de las hojas del taraje, que dice así: "Hojas muy pequeñas, escuamiformes, ensanchadas y abrazaderas en la base, agudas". Gracias de antemano.
Change log

Sep 7, 2007 02:39: Salloz changed "Field (specific)" from "Zoology" to "Botany"

Dec 7, 2008 20:17: John Speese Created KOG entry

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narrowed and constricted at the base

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Es solamente una traduccion literal, sin embargo genera varios golpes de google... aunque la mayoria de las referencias se refieran a los insectos y no a las plantas.
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with broad, sheathing base

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sheathing: clasping or enveloping the stem.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~weeds/western_weeds/glossary.ht...

Perichætial leaves erect, subulate from a broad sheathing-base, papillose on the margins and backs. Fruitstalk terminal, ½in. long, red. Capsules ovate. ...
rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_29/rsnz_29_00_003990.html

and have leaves with a broad sheathing base and a narrow blade. ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9122(199805)85:5%3C714:SAGODF%3E2.0.CO;2-T -

The most prominent shared features, although reduced, are a broad sheathing base (the scale) with one or more long slender lateral teeth (the 'stipule'), ...
www.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/DigFlora/BERB/Bscale.html -
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