In botany, having branches or stems with a blunt, dull, or immature appearance; marked by obtuse or undifferentiated branching.
From Greek 'hebe' (dull, obtuse) + 'klados' (branch). A specialized descriptive term in botanical taxonomy and morphology.
Plant scientists created an entire vocabulary using 'hebe-' as a prefix meaning 'dull' or 'blunt'—it allowed them to precisely describe subtle variations in plant structure that mattered for classification.
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