A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

defoliatus,-a,-um (part.A): defoliate; “having cast its leaves” (Jackson); denuded of leaves, defoliated; leafless [Late Latin defolio,-avi,-atum 1. to deprive of or lose leaves, as by natural leaf-fall [after WIII], cf. exfoliatus,-a,-um (part.A)]; opp. foliatus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v., leaf-bearing;

- pedunculi ad axillas v. ad nodos defoliatos saepius complures, umbellatim pluriflori. (B&H), the peduncles very often several at the axils or defoliated nodes, umbellatly many-flowered.

- pedunculi ad axillas v. ad nodos defoliatos saepius complures, umbellatim pluriflori. (B&H), the peduncles very often several at the axils or defoliated nodes, umbellately many-flowered.

- flores saepius fasciculati e caule defoliato erumpentes, rarius in axillis solitarii (B&H), flowers rather often fasciculate erupting from a denuded stem, rather rarely solitary in the axils.

- [Sarcocaulon] herbae suffrutices, carnosae v. succulentae, petiolis defoliatis spinescentibus armatae (B&H), herbs or subshrubs, fleshy or succulent, armed with leafless spinescent petioles.