from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A straplike structure, such as the corolla of a ray flower or a membranous or hairy appendage between the sheaf and blade of a grass leaf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A strap-shaped structure.
- n. A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present.
- n. In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
- n. A strap-shaped corolla of flowers of Compositæ.
- n. A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of the brain.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, one of several strap-shaped organs or parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
The _ligule_ consists of only a thin ridge of short hairs densely arranged.
The _ligule_ is only a smooth semilunar line without hairs.
The _ligule_ consists of a fringe of minute hairs.
Just above the ligule and at the base of the leaf-blade there is a colourless narrow zone.
The _ligule_ is merely a dense fringe of long hairs.
The = ligule = is a structure peculiar to grasses and it varies very much.
Sometimes, in addition to the ligule, other appendages may be present in grass leaves as in _Oryza sativa_.
The _ligule_ is membranous truncate, glabrous, about 1/16 inch in height.
Margin of glume 1 of the pedicelled spikelet unequally winged; ligule is a broad truncate membrane.
Pedicel 1/2 as long as the sessile spikelets; nodes bearded; ligule large and membranous.