astelic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"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 […]"
"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 […]"

From a- + stele + -ic.

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