a. rare. [See prec. and -ORY2.] Forming the end or extremity; terminal.

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1756.  J. Hill, Hist. Plants, 156 (Jod.). The blite with spicated terminatory heads.

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1775.  J. Jenkinson, Descr. Brit. Pl., Gloss., s.v., By a terminatory flower is meant the end flower.

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1853.  Th. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxx. 219. The terminatory point of the group of little mountains.

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