Meanings
nouncauliflory (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being cauliflorous.
Stebbins (1974) reported that cauliflory is present in species belonging to most of the larger tropical families and that these species, derived from ancestors living in a more open environment, secondarily entered the rain forest.
1990, Shirley Ann Owens, The Development of Cauliflory in Cercis Canadensis (Fabaceae)
Origin
From caul(is) + -i- + flor (“flower”) + -y (“noun suffix”).
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