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Cauline

adjective

(of plants) producing a well-developed stem above ground. Synonyms: caulescent, stemmed.

Especially of leaves; growing on a stem especially on the upper part of a stem.

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"Cauline" Quotes from Famous Books

... preperation; but in this way is vastly in-ferior. it delights most in a deep rich dry lome which has a good mixture of sand. the stem of this plant is simple ascending celindric and hisped. the root leaves yet possess their virdure and are about half grown of a plale green. the cauline leaf as well as the stem of the last season are now dead, but in rispect to it's form &c. it is simple, crenate, & oblong, reather more obtuse at it's apex than at the base or insertion; it's margin armed with prickles while it's ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... persons with whom he lived, that, though while he was writing under a mask he had not wanted resolution to follow his genius into the regions of true simplicity and genuine pathos (as is evinced by the exquisite ballad of 'Sir Cauline' and by many other pieces), yet when he appeared in his own person and character as a poetical writer, he adopted, as in the tale of the 'Hermit of Warkworth,' a diction scarcely in any one of its ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth