capreolate

Borrowed from Latin capreolātus, from capreolus (“wild goat, tendril”) + -ātus, from caper (“goat”); see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French capréolé.

capreolate (comparative more capreolate, superlative most capreolate)

1. (archaic, botany) Having a tendril or tendrils.
   • 1917, Linnean Society of London, The Journal of the Linnean Society‎^[1], volume 44, The Society, page 237:

     The Section Grandiflora, representing the Agraric and Capreolata of Hammar, is readily subdivided into three subsections, as is done by Haussknecht, by eliminating, as Murales, from the well-marked Agrarian and Capreolate species the more dubious and intermediate plants, some of which present distinct individual features, while one or two others show affinities with certain of the Parviflora.

• “capreolate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.