A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

strictus,-a,-um (part.A): compar. strictior,-ius (adj.B), superl. strictissimus,-a,-um (adj.A): strict, drawn close together, congested; very upright or erect, very straight and rigid; “very upright, or very straight” (Lindley); “close or narrow and upright, very straight” (Jackson); “very straight and upright” (Fernald 1950), “erect, upright” (Stearn 1996); “of upright erect habit, as a stem; being straight and not lax or drooping, as a strict inflorescence” (WIII) [> L. stringo, strinxi, strictum, 3. to draw tight together, to bind, tie; to graze, to lightly touch; strictus,-a,-um (part.A), drawn together, close, tight, as a knot; rigid, severe, strict]; opp. laxus,-a,-um (adj.A): lax, flaccid, loose, with parts distinct and apart from one another or in an open or loose arrangement; see erect; see rigid;

other meanings: pruned, clipped, stripped off, plucked; bound, tied, drawn tightly together, hence ‘close, tight;’ drawn tight together; rigid, severe, strict; touched lightly, grazed; affected, injured;

- folia ex arboribus stricta, leaves stripped off the trees.

- frondes aetate ex trunco stricta, leafy branches with age stripped off the trunk.

rectus,-a,-um (part.A), q.v.,led straight along, drawn in a straight line (horizontal or vertical), straight, upright.

- nervo valido flavido stricto in mucronem brevissimum attenuato, with a strong nerve yellowish straight abbreviated into a very short mucro.

- folium strictum praeter ad apicem valde deflectens, leaf straight except at the apex strongly bending backward.

- ramis pustulatis distichis strictis patentibus, rigidis, with branches pustulate, in two rows, straight, spreading, rigid.

- siliquae in omnibus erectae v. suberectae, pedicello stricto(B&H), the silicles in all species erect or suberect, with the pedicel upright.

- suffrutex strictus, rigidus, cinereus, subshrub upright, rigid, gray in color.

- scapus crassus, simplex, racemo fructifero stricto, erecto, crasso, ebracteato (B&H), the scape thick, unbranched, with the fruit-bearing raceme upright, straight, thick, without bracts.

- herbae saepe elatae, strictae, herbs often tall, straight.

- spicae masculinae amentaceae pendulae v. utriusque sexus erectae, strictae (B&H), masculine spikes amentaceous, pendulous or each [of the two] sexes [i.e. male and female] erect, straight.

- Sphaeria stricta. Rigida demum et fragilis. Sphaeria stricta. At once rigid and fragile.

- spicae 3 axillares, strictae, spikes 3, axillary, straight.

- stipes validus strictus subteres, stipe robust straight less than round.

- fungi juniores erecti stricti, younger fungi erect, straight.

- herbae saepe elatae, strictae, glabrae v. saepius pilis bipartitis appressis canae (B&H), herbs often tall, upright, glabrous or more often grayish-white with appressed 2-parted hairs.

- siliquae tomentosae, erecto-patentes, strictae (non torulosae)(B&H), siliques tomentose, erect-spreading, straight (not torulose [i.e. cylindrical with constrictions].

- scapus crassus, simplex, racemo fructifero stricto, erecto, crasso, ebracteato (B&H), scape thick, unbranched, with the fruit-bearing raceme straight, erect, thick, lacking bracts.

- gregaria, subcaespitosa, exacte teres, erecta, nunc strictior , nunc laxior (S&A), [fungus] gregarious, almost sod-forming, strictly terete, erect, sometimes more congested, sometimes in a looser arrangement.

- Hypserpa sepalis interioribus leviter imbricatis, a speciebus sepalis strictius valvatis nobis haud generice distinguenda videtur (B&H), Hypserpa with the inner sepals lightly imbricate, seems by us hardly generically to be distinguished from species with sepals with the valves more upright.

- ostiolis setaceis tenuissimis strictiusculis, with ostioles bristle-like, very thin, nearly straight.

- [lichen] thallus efoliolosus, podetiis stramineis glabris strictiusculis (Nyl.), the thallus not foliolose, with the podetia straw-colored, glabrous, somewhat straight-up.

- [lichen] thallus basi squamoso-foliolosus pallidus, foliolis lobato-incisis difformibus adscendentibus, podetiis glabris congestis strictis (Nyl.), the thallus at the base scaley-foliolose, pale, with the leaflets lobate-incised, of two forms, ascending, with the podetia glabrous, congested, erect and straight.

- [lichen] podetiis parce ramosis (ramis semper strictiusculis, ut in typo) (Nyl.), with the podetia sparingly branched (with the branches always nearly straight up, as in the type).

Carex stricta (erect) var. strictior (straighter); Lechea stricta “upright” (Fernald 1950), a species whose panicle-branches are “erect or strongly ascending;” Oxalis stricta, “erect” (Fernald 1950).

[lichen] Stereocaulon strictum, (cf. podetia) erect and straight.