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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(Bot.)

Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.

Adj.

In botany, growing immediately on the stem, without the intervention of branches; as a cauline leaf, bulb, peduncle or scape.

cauline

Growing immediately on a caulis, the main stem of a plant; of or pertaining to a caulis.