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• dumose

語源

Latin dumōsus (“overgrown with thorns or briars”)

形容詞

dumous (comparative more dumous, superlative most dumous)

1. Abounding with bushes and briars.
2. (botany) Having a compact, bushy form.
   • 1920 June, W. P. M., “A Visit to Rostrevor House Garden in May”, in J. W. Besant, editor, Irish Gardening, volume 15, number 172, page 82:

     R. fastigiatum, with tufts of blue flowers, about a foot high, and R. verruculosum, even smaller, of a dumose habit; few but bigger flowers than R. fastigiatum and of a deeper blue colour.

Further reading

• “dumous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.