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Title: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: mark smyth on February 19, 2012, 08:30:57 PM: What's the opposite of plicate? Is this just an extreme cuculate/hooded leaf tip?
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: Brian Ellis on February 19, 2012, 08:55:14 PM: As plicate means 'arranged in folds', Mark, that's plicate too.
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: Hans J on February 19, 2012, 08:57:31 PM: Mark ,

plicat means folded
This is same word relation in Multiplication
the oppsite of plicat is smooth

Hans
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: mark smyth on February 19, 2012, 09:01:00 PM: Thanks Brian.

The leaves are from, for now, an unknown twin scaping species. One leaf is plicate and the other is flat but with a hooded tip.
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: Brian Ellis on February 19, 2012, 09:02:49 PM: I suppose if you wanted to describe it to someone you might say 'inverse plication'.
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: mark smyth on February 19, 2012, 09:03:59 PM: Thanks Hans and Brian
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: ronm on February 19, 2012, 09:05:36 PM: Carol says its obplicate. But I'm as ignorant as most, so am unsure. ???
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: Maggi Young on February 19, 2012, 09:21:51 PM: Quote from: ronm on February 19, 2012, 09:05:36 PM
Carol says its obplicate. But I'm as ignorant as most, so am unsure. ???

Seemed plausible... thought I'd check the dictionary : I found this quote from a scientific paper....
"The mitral sclerites have four sides known as the accrescent, decrescent, plicate, and obplicate sides, while the four sides of the sellate sclerites are the sella, ........."

Oh dear.... that didn't help, did it? :-\ ???
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: ronm on February 19, 2012, 09:27:45 PM: Moves it on a little perhaps? :-\
Title: Re: What's the opposite of plicate?
Post by: Anthony Darby on February 20, 2012, 04:54:13 AM: I think this com-plicates things? Plicate snowdrop leaves have definite folds with a crease.