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noun Botany.
1.
a thin, membranous outgrowth from the base of the blade of most grasses.
2.
a strap-shaped corolla, as in the ray flowers of the head of certain composite plants.
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Ligules
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ligule  (lĭg'y l) Pronunciation Key
A straplike structure, such as the corolla of fused petals in a ray flower or a membranous or hairy appendage between the sheath and blade of a grass leaf. |
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