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Rectangularly

Rectangular \Rec*tan"gu*lar\ (r?k*t?n"g?*l?r), a. [CF. F. rectangulaire.] Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r?k*t?n"g?*l?r*l?), adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.

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rectangularly

adv. In a rectangular manner.

Usage examples of "rectangularly".

But from observing the effects of placing plants in the dark, in which case several shoots became in two or three days upright or nearly upright, and when brought back into the light again became rectangularly curved, we believe that the bending is in part due to apheliotropism, apparently somewhat opposed by apogeotropism.

The direction of the rectangularly bent part is independent of the chief source of light.

As the rectangularly bent portion of an upright stem grows older, the lower part straightens itself.

After they had become rectangularly bent, a long white thread was stretched by two persons, close over and parallel, first to one and then to another cotyledon.

The five radicles which were rectangularly bent became fixed in this position, and they continued to grow out horizontally in the peat for a length of about 1 inch during from 4 to 6 days.

As he reached the edge of the wagonsarranged rectangularly to form a wheeled forthe noted two Malazan marines, cloaks wrapped about their bodies, sitting before a small dung-fire.

As he reached the edge of the wagons - arranged rectangularly to form a wheeled fort - he noted two Malazan marines, cloaks wrapped about their bodies, sitting before a small dung-fire.

All the mobdering little lanes and abbeys that opened out upon it, opened as a result not rectangularly but sbantwise.