Definition of "cespitose" []

• Botany Growing in tufts or clumps. (adjective)

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• "The season was rainy, and the plants appeared each day during quite a long period, sometimes large numbers of them covering a small area, but they were not clustered nor cespitose."
• "I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other."
• "It is easily recognized by its dense cespitose habit, the deep blood red juice, the hollow stem, and the crenate or denticulate sterile margin of the cap."