pachycaulous
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pachycaulous (not comparable)
- (botany) Relating to a pachycaul; having a thick stem and few branches.
- Antonym: leptocaulous
- 2002, E. J. H. Corner, The Life of Plants, page 275:
- Some of the herbaceous forms relate, like the banana, directly to the pachycaulous, others to the leptocaulous.