determinate
- adjective
- /dɪˈtɜːrmɪnət/
- Specialized
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determinado
- This plant right there, that plant is a indeterminate Cherokee purple with a determinate celebrity.
- determinate plant
- determinate variety
- determinate tomato
Well, very simple, as the name would imply, A determinate tomato is determined.
- Well, very simple, as the name would imply, A determinate tomato is determined.
Examples
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For a garden with limited space, determinate tomato plants are ideal as they grow to a specific size without sprawling.
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Males lack a meristem and show determinate growth, whereas hermaphrodites possess a meristem (called the notch meristem) and grow indeterminately.
Academic text (1998) -
Well, very simple, as the name would imply, A determinate tomato is determined.
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The soybean cultivar "Forrest," a product of a USDA breeding program, represents a determinate Southern germplasm.
Blog text (27) -
This macrostructuring - the distribution of gaps and of indeterminate and determinate facts - will be called the "world's saturation." The density function is thus a projection of the text's density onto the world's saturation.
Academic text (1995) -
When planting tomatoes, opt for a determinate variety that produces fruit all at once and grows to a fixed height.
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The determinate bushes yield their fruit in a concentrated period, making them easy to harvest.
Antonyms
How Indeterminate
- Specialized
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Determinate in plant talk uses the same root termin-, which means 'end' (as in term or terminal). That is a good image: a determinate plant 'reaches its end' at the tip and stops growing, so it makes its flowers or fruit in a single, limited burst.