rosulate

English

Etymology

New Latin rosulatus, from rosa (“a rose”).

Adjective

rosulate (comparative more rosulate, superlative most rosulate)

1. (botany, of leaves and bracts) Arranged in small rose-like clusters.
   • 1874, The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches, volume 5, page 326:

     It appears to claim a very close relationship to the preceding species, differing chiefly in the tiny leaves being rather more rosulate than caudiculate, and in not being adpressed, but rather the reverse; its petals, also, are narrower.

   • 1950, Gilbert Westacott Reynolds, The Aloes of South Africa, page 494:

     In young plants, the leaves are often more or less arranged in four vertical ranks, but become more rosulate with age.

   • 1971, Hans Bornman, David S. Hardy, Aloes of the South African Veld, page 199:

     […] differs from the typical form in having smaller, shorter more rosulate milky-green leaves, shorter sheaths, greenish-yellow buds, straighter flowers and narrower more or less unicoloured yellowish racemes.

Anagrams

• alterous, oestrual, ursolate