cespitose Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts
    caespitose; tufted.

WordNet

Ces"pi*tose` adjective
Etymology
L. caespes turf.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots. Written also cæspitose.

Webster 1913