[
UK
/bˈeɪsəl/
]
[ US /ˈbeɪsəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈbeɪsəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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especially of leaves; located at the base of a plant or stem; especially arising directly from the root or rootstock or a root-like stem
radical leaves
basal placentation -
of or being the essential or basic part
a basal reader
an elementary need for love and nurturing -
serving as or forming a base
the painter applied a base coat followed by two finishing coats
How To Use basal In A Sentence
- The lymphatic vessels of the tongue may be divided into four groups: (1) apical, from the tip of the tongue to the suprahyoid glands and principal gland of the tongue; (2) lateral, from the margin of the tonguesome of these pierce the Mylohyoideus to end in the submaxillary glands, others pass down on the Hyoglossus to the superior deep cervical glands; (3) basal, from the region of the vallate papillæ to the superior deep cervical glands; and (4) median, a few of which perforate the Mylohyoideus to reach the submaxillary glands, while the majority turn around the posterior border of the muscle to enter the superior deep cervical glands. VIII. The Lymphatic System. 3. The Lymphatics of the Head, Face, and Neck
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Thus basal primates might have used ethanol plumes to locate ripening fruits as well as associated fauna.
- Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
- The specific bits of the brain that have this task are the basal ganglia. Times, Sunday Times
- Wedgwood did not suddenly create and start selling his "basaltes" ware simply because it showed off white hands to advantage. "Selling was an intellectual pleasure, an art form" for Josiah Wedgwood.
- The basis of these lower lavas is rather wacke than basalt; when it is spongy, it resembles the amygdaloids* of Frankfort-on-the-Main. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- In New Jersey, native vegetation is mixed oak forest on well-drained upland sites over sandstone, shale, diabase, and basalt. Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
- Everything about this cold, vaulted hall seemed dark, with its acres of bare, black basalt. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
- The technique was to go slowly back and forth parallel to the shore on the basalt reef and locate any fissure veins containing copper or other minerals.