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Encyclopedia > Glabrous

In Botany, glabrous is used to describe something as smooth or having no hair or similar growth (see indumentum). Botany is the scientific study of plant life. ... Smooth could mean many things, including: Smooth function, a function that is infinitely differentiable, used in calculus and topology. ...


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In botany and mycology, glabrous is used to describe a
In medicine, "glabrous" skin is used to describe the hairless skin on the human body, such as the fingers, palmar surfaces of hands, soles of feet, lips, and penises.
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A prostrate and low-growing, glabrous perennial with numerous long stolons spreading along the surface of the ground, branching and rooting at the nodes; forming mats of foliage in moist situations in pastures and ditches, generally on sandy soils.
A dark green, glabrous perennial with erect or geniculate culms and long, vigorous, creeping rootstocks forming a thick sod; widely distributed on moderately moist soils; a common grass of pastures, meadows, fields and roadsides.
A. alba is distinguished from Phleum pratense by the glabrous margins of collar, the absence of a notch at either side of ligule and by the prominently ridged upper surface of blade.
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