caulome Bot.
(ˈkɔːləʊm)
[f. Gr. καυλός stem, after rhizome, Gr. ῥίζωµα (f. ῥιζό-ειν to strike root); see -ome. Also in Græco-Latin form cauloma.]
The general name for the leaf-bearing axis of a plant; a stem or branch, or any member morphologically corresponding to these.
| 1875 Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. i. iii. 129 Applying a common name to all those parts which bear leaves; they may be termed Stem-structures (Caulomes) or simply Axes. 1883 G. Allen in Nature 492 A central axis or caulome. |
Hence cauˈlomic a., belonging to a caulome.
| 1880 Nature XXIII. 159 The bundles..belonging to the roots spring partly out of the caulomic vascular ring. |