homomallous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From homo- + Ancient Greek μαλλός (mallós, “lock of wool”) + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]homomallous (not comparable)
- (botany) Uniformly bending or curving to one side; said of leaves that grow on several sides of a stem.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “homomallous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)