astelic

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ stele +‎ -ic.

Adjective

astelic (not comparable)

1. (botany) Lacking steles.
   • 1901, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Botany. 2d Series, page 298:

     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 […]

   • 1999, R. J. Harvey Gibson, Outlines Of Botany, page 181:

     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 […]

Anagrams

• elastic, Altices, cislate, Castiel, laciest, latices, salicet, Castile