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Example sentences for "glabrous"

Lexicographically close words:
givings; gizzard; gizzards; glabella; glabra; glace; glaces; glacial; glacialis; glacialists
  1. Blade thin, dry, rough edged, hairy and rough above, glabrous or hairy below.

  2. Ligule very short or obsolete; blade firm but not hard, glabrous or nearly so, and shining below.

  3. Leaves hard, glabrous and often glaucous, with 5-7 ridges if forcibly unrolled, ears short, stiff and erect.

  4. Palea obtuse, nearly glabrous and nerveless, or faintly 3-5 nerved and with a faint web.

  5. Catabrosa is a small creeping aquatic with very flaccid leaves, quite glabrous and soft.

  6. Early, and a heavy cropping hay grass: also excellent pasture; branches intra-vaginal, but burst the glabrous sheaths.

  7. Note the compressed, keeled and glabrous palea, and the long slender bone-shaped rachilla.

  8. In general it may be stated that a hairy grass tends to become more glabrous in a moist situation, and more pubescent in a dry one, but the rule is by no means absolute.

  9. Bromus giganteus has leaves glabrous and very like Festuca elatior.

  10. The sheath may also be glabrous or hairy, and grooved or not.

  11. Awn bristle-like, almost as long as the nearly glabrous glume: spike long, cylindrical.

  12. Festuca elatior is easily confused with the glabrous Bromes.

  13. Blade and sheath glabrous or merely ciliate or silky, the former tending to twist to the right.

  14. Five pods joined at one point, half-moon shaped, with woody shell, glabrous within and with a short down on the outer surface.

  15. Corolla twisted, arched, cleft in the middle, throat nude, limb slashed in 5 large glabrous parts.

  16. A plant 1° high, with a creeping, glabrous stem, leaves horizontal, ternate with common long petiole.

  17. Plant with a glabrous stem, leaves sessile, glabrous, lanceolate, the upper ones serrate, the lower ones almost entire.

  18. Leaves opposite, twice abruptly pinnate, a stylet replacing the terminal leaflet; 5 pairs of elliptical leaflets, entire, glabrous and notched at the apex.

  19. Twigs glabrous or nearly so; fruit 1-1/2-2 inches long.

  20. Lower surface of leaves glabrous or nearly so.

  21. Leaves very large, with five shallow lobes; teeth short and obtuse; light green in color; glabrous above, wooly beneath.

  22. Leaves and shoots glabrous at maturity and without bloom; tendrils intermittent.

  23. That the glabrous seedlings were the product of the rough-leaved variety, and not accidentally of the mother-plant's own pollen, was shown by their tall and strong habit of growth.

  24. The whole tree is quite glabrous except the petioles, which are clothed with a dense pubescence.

  25. It is a tree of 25 feet in height, with nearly rotundate, glabrous leaves on long footstalks, and pretty pinky-white flowers.

  26. It is very variable in character, and the form generally cultivated grows about 4 feet high, and has ovate-lanceolate, almost glabrous leaves.

  27. The leaves, too, are quite glabrous and obscurely toothed.

  28. Pileus thin, flattened and obtusely umbonate, silky with yellowish down, often glabrous when adult, and then bright cinnamon, but the color is variable.

  29. A shade of yellow sometimes appears beneath the brown of the pileus, and as the plants grow old the pileus becomes blackish, glabrous and shining.

  30. Typically it is glabrous or merely pruinose, but Fries has admitted into the group one species with a pulverulent, and one with a silky pileus.

  31. Stem= equal, stuffed or hollow, glabrous or subpruinose, colored like the pileus.

  32. Stem= glabrous or minutely branny, substriate, bulbous or thickened at the base, whitish.

  33. Pileus= when young villose or subtomentose, rarely becoming glabrous with age, destitute of a viscid pellicle.

  34. Pileus= convex, soft, glabrous viscid, red or yellow, or red fading to yellow on the margin.

  35. The leaves of the Norway maple are thinner, bright green and glabrous beneath, and its keys diverge in a straight line.

  36. Flesh of pileus thin, everywhere equal, at first downy or subinnately silky, but glabrous when adult, dry, not hygrophanous.

  37. Pileus glabrous or covered with superficial white fibrils, not viscid but moist when growing, losing the deep colour and becoming pale when dry, flesh very thin, splitting, disc rarely thicker.

  38. Pileus hygrophanous, at first glabrous or with whitish superficial fibrils.

  39. Pileus glabrous or covered with superficial white fibrils, not viscid but moist when growing, discoloured when dry; flesh very thin, splitting, disc rarely compact.

  40. Pellicle rigid, punctato-granulate, or broken up into glabrous fragments when dry.

  41. Flesh of pileus thin, everywhere equal, at first downy or subinnately silky, but glabrous when adult, dry, not hygr.

  42. Pileus either glabrous or with minute innate squamules, especially near the apex, not splitting along the lines of the gills.

  43. Leaves covered below early in the season with articulate hairs, becoming glabrous or nearly glabrous.

  44. Mature leaves glabrous (slightly pubescent on the midrib and veins below in 142).

  45. Small glabrous creeping perennials, rooting in the mud, with small simple umbels and leaves reduced to hollow cylindrical jointed petioles.

  46. Glabrous perennials, with round and heart-shaped or kidney-form, large, undivided leaves.

  47. Stingless, mostly glabrous and low herbs, with opposite leaves and united stipules; the staminate flowers often mixed with the fertile.

  48. Perennial rather tall glabrous herbs, with few palmately-lobed or parted leaves, those from the root long-petioled.

  49. Slender glabrous climbing annuals or perennials, with very small racemose or panicled white sterile flowers and a solitary fertile one in the same axil.

  50. In one form they are smaller and hairy and in the other they are larger and glabrous except for a few stray hairs here and there.

  51. The leaf-sheath enclosing the base of the peduncle is rather long, glabrous with a tuft of short hairs at the mouth.

  52. The leaf-sheath is glabrous or nearly so, with hairs at the mouth.

  53. The leaf-sheath is glabrous or slightly hairy, the upper ones being shorter and dilated into spathes with subulate tips.

  54. The leaf-sheath is glabrous and smooth.

  55. The sessile spikelet is as long as the stalked or a little less, with a thick callus, shortly bearded at the base or sometimes glabrous and consists of four glumes.

  56. Medium to large sized trees with fissured bark, the ridges and furrows narrower than those of the white ash; twigs slender and glabrous at maturity; leaves generally 2-3 dm.

  57. In consulting the literature on the subject it is found that some authors describe the fruit as glabrous while others describe it as hairy.

  58. Large tall trees with bark from light to dark gray; twigs densely covered at first with long hairs, soon becoming glabrous and turning to a reddish-brown; terminal winter buds about 2 cm.

  59. Medium sized trees with deeply furrowed bark; twigs at first green and hairy, becoming at the end of the season glabrous and a light brown, the stipules developing in about a year into a pair of woody spines about 2 cm.

  60. Leaves and petioles glabrous or only slightly pubescent; calyx tube and outside of calyx lobes glabrous or only slightly pubescent.

  61. Last year's growth glabrous or nearly so; acorns more than 12 mm.

  62. Its alternate, entire, obovate leaves have short petioles; they are glabrous and are about 4 to 8 inches in length.

  63. The leaves are oval to oblong, usually acuminate, glabrous above and pubescent beneath, and have prominent veins.

  64. This strong-growing, glabrous vine, climbing by tendrils, is a native of tropical America.

  65. Its dark green, glabrous leaves are pointed, elliptical, and are shiny on the upper surface, but rusty beneath.

  66. The leaves are obovate, oblong, glabrous above and shiny beneath.

  67. Its leaves, which are either lanceolate or oblong and pointed, are glabrous above and rough beneath.

  68. The twigs are smooth and glabrous and have a thick, light brown pith with small round winter buds.

  69. The twigs, brittle at the base, are glabrous or pubescent, bright red-brown becoming darker with age.

  70. The aquatic form has floating or submerged stems with oblong or elliptic leaves, which are glabrous and have long petioles.

  71. Smooth or glabrous varieties often occur, and some of them have already been cited as instances of the multiplication of varietal names.

  72. Leaflets thin, the petioles and pedicels nearly glabrous or with appressed hairs; fruit conic, the achenes on its surface =Wood Strawberry, Fragaria americana.

  73. Leaves glabrous beneath when mature, or pubescent on the veins only --6.

  74. Leaves glabrous beneath, or minutely pubescent on the veins =Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum.

  75. Stem and leaves glabrous or pubescent; pod not more than 5 mm.

  76. Stem and leaves glabrous or nearly so (5-15 dm.

  77. Leaves thin, light, bright green, generally glabrous below at maturity except perhaps in the axils of the veins (V.

  78. The vine is peculiar in having very hairy petioles and nearly glabrous shoots.

  79. Doaniana is quite variable, some specimens being nearly glabrous at maturity while others are densely covered with white pubescence.

  80. It differs from typical Cordifolia in having leaves which are thicker, narrower, more oblong, with a long lanceolate point, completely glabrous and more or less glossy on both surfaces.

  81. A large white-flowered caper (Capparis obovata, Royle) and a glabrous Zizyphus were the most remarkable new forms.

  82. There are two varieties wild in Germany, the one with glabrous leaves and ovaries, the other with leaves downy on the under side, and Koch adds that this down varies considerably.

  83. I have not been able to discover an Italian name for a glabrous or other fruit derived from tuber, or tuberes, which is singular, as the ancient names of fruits are usually preserved under some form or other.

  84. This tree, like the common orange, is glabrous in all its parts.

  85. On the branches it becomes much thinner, and lighter in color, the branchlets being unfissured and glabrous in the second year, although fuzzy at first.

  86. The lower pair of leaflets is markedly different from the rest in shape; sharply serrate and thin; dark green and glabrous above; lighter below.


  87. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glabrous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bald; beardless; downy; even; flat; glabrous; level; plane; regular; smooth; suave; unbroken; uniform; unruffled