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astelic en · ADJ

Etymology

From a- + stele + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Lacking steles.
    • The astelic type of Van Tieghem does not result from the separation of the constituent epicotyledonary stele into its constituent bundles, for in the young so-called astelic axis there are no bundles present at all, but a collateral stelar tube […] 1999, R. J. Harvey Gibson, Outlines Of Botany, page 181:
    • We see, therefore, that the plants in this Order, although generally astelic, sometimes aggregate all the vascular bundles present in certain of their members into so many steles […] 1901, Transactions of the Linnean Society of London: Botany. 2d Series, page 298: