Usually means: Membrane connecting leaf blade, sheath.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. ligule: Merriam-Webster
  2. ligule: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ligule: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ligule: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ligule: Vocabulary.com
  6. ligule: Wordnik
  7. Ligule: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. ligule: Wiktionary
  9. ligule: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ligule: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ligule: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ligule: Dictionary.com
  13. Ligule: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ligule: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ligule: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ligule: Rhymezone
  17. Ligule: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ligule: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ligule: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ligule: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ligule: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Ligule: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ligule)

noun:  A strap-shaped structure.
noun:  (botany) A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present.
noun:  (botany) In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath.

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