a. Bot. [ad. mod.L. caulīnus, f. caulis stalk.] Of or belonging to the stem.

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1756.  Phil. Trans., XLIX. 835. Cauline leaves.

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1807.  J. E. Smith, Phys. Bot., 130. The Flower-stalk is … cauline, when it grows immediately out of the main stem.

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1842.  Gray, Struct. Bot., iii. (1880), 86. Whatever is produced in the axil of a leaf is cauline.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 21. Cauline leaves sessile auricled.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner. & Ferns, 340. The vascular elements running into the leaf here abut on the cauline vessels.

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