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From auxo- (“growth”) + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”) + -ous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Exhibiting further enlargement of segments formed by secondary growth after their initial formation, so that filaments have a conspicuously greater diameter than the apical cell that generated them. Full definition →
From auxo- (“growth”) + Ancient Greek καυλός (kaulós, “stem”) + -ous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.