obvolute, a. Bot.
(ˈɒbvəl(j)uːt)
[ad. L. obvolūt-us, pa. pple. of obvolvĕre: see next.]
(See quots.)
| 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xvi. (1765) 207 Obvolute, rowled against each other; when their respective Margins alternately embrace the strait Margin of the opposite Leaf. 1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 374. 1870 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 143 If the half of one conduplicate leaf receives in its fold the half of another folded in the same manner, the vernation is half equitant or obvolute. 1880 Gray Struct. Bot. 139. |