pseudoannual

comparative more pseudoannual · superlative most pseudoannual · alternative pseudo-annual

1. Having the appearance of something that occurs annually but not following a strictly annual pattern.

   In the pseudoannual rings of the root, the zones of tracheal tubes are separated from each other by rows of lignified tracheids.

   1933 March, Digital Library Of India, “Morphology and Anatomy of Mollugo verticillata L.”, in The Kansas University Science Bulletin, volume XXI, number 12, Lawrence, K.S.: University of Kansas, page 410

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   Having detected pseudoannual growth zones by the methods already described, an attempt was made to find out how to identify them in nature.

   1939, Copeia, page 91

   A few red oak species have pseudoannual fruit maturation, that is, the fruit appears annual because the branches bearing the fruit did not elongate the following year ( Engelman , 1876-1877 ; Nixon , 1993 ) .

   2001, María Lucía Vázquez, Molecular Andmorphological Studies on Mexican Red Oaks (Quercus Sect. Lobatae), page 247

plural pseudoannuals · alternative pseudo-annual

1. A pseudoannual species.

   These so-called pseudoannual species are characterized by the absence of a persisting shoot system that connects shoots longer than one vegetation period. One of these pseudoannuals is T. europaea.

   2009 February 10, Kathrin Kirchner, Sabine Kammermeier, Helge Bruelheide, “The response of the pseudoannual species Trientalis europaea L. to forest gap dynamics in a near-natural spruce forest”, in Forest Ecology and Management, volume 257, number 3, Amsterdam: Elsevier, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1071