ADJECTIVE
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having no hair or similar growth; smooth
glabrous stems
a glabrous scalp
glabrous leaves
How To Use glabrous In A Sentence
- The _leaf-blade_ is convolute when young, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, variable from 1/4 to 2 inches long and 1/10 to 1/6 inch wide, acuminate, flat or somewhat wavy, glabrous on both the surfaces, rigidly pungent, densely crowded and distichously imbricate in the lower part of the stem, base is amplexicaul, and the margin is distantly serrate and rigidly ciliate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Stem with 2 to 4 pairs of opposite scales or buds below the compound leaves; leaflets glabrous, entire or denticulate _J. regia_ Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
- The _leaf-sheath_ is loose, glabrous and auricled. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- A line of shells, white and pink and glabrous in the bright sunlight, marked the line of the high tide. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
- The _panicle_ is oblong to pyramidal, flaccid, open or contracted erect or inclined, 2 to 8 inches; rachis is hairy or glabrous; branches are very fine filiform or capillary, more or less whorled, lower six inches long; branchlets are still finer and capillary. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- +Cap+ 2 to 5 inches broad, yellowish-brown, convex, dry, firm, glabrous or minutely tomentose, flesh yellow or pale yellow. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
- Objective : To improve a TLC identification condition for Glabrous Sarcandra Herb to enhance its sensitivity.
- Instead, they take up those weapons in the male armoury more befitting of their glabrous state: candour, bluntness, directness, scepticism. THE CALLIGRAPHER
- Dodonaea microzyga, F.M. Somewhat viscid, almost glabrous; leaves with 1 to 2 pairs of small obovate-cuneate leaflets; in front rounded, or truncate, or retuse, or sometimes 3-toothed, flat at the margin; rachis dilated; fruit-bearing pedicels solitary; capsules 3 to 4-celled; valves cymbeo-semiorbicular, all around broadly winged; the wing rounded-blunt on both extremities; dissepiments persistent with the columella. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
- Body black, punctured; antennae piceous; first joint obconic, not longer than the second and third together, which are equal; 4-10 joints moniliform; last joint ovate acute; palpi pale piceous; terminal joint minute, that of the labial longer; thorax oblong-quadrate; angles rounded; glabrous line none; elytra black piceous, punctures not Vol.IV. — 5 454 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society