septuplinerved

By surface analysis, septuple (“seven times, sevenfold”, from Latin septuplus) +‎ -i- (Latinate interfix) +‎ nerved (“having nerves”). Compare translingual septuplinervis, the specific epithet of Miconia septuplinervis.

• enPR: sĕp-tŭp′-lĭ-nûrvd′
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sɛpˈtʌp.lɪˌnɜːvd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sɛpˈtʌp.lɪˌnɜɹvd/
• Rhymes: -ʌplɪnɜːvd
• Hyphenation: sep-tup-li-nerved

septuplinerved (comparative more septuplinerved, superlative most septuplinerved)

1. (botany, taxonomy) Having seven nerves.

   a septuplinerved leaf

   • 1890, Frederick Manson Bailey, A synopsis of the Queensland flora: containing both the phaenogamous and cryptogamous plants.‎^[1], page 59:

     Leaves broadly ovate-acuminate, rounded at the base, and nearly or quite equal-sided, 6 to 8 in. long, 4 to 5 in. broad, on petioles of about ³⁄₄in., septuplinerved.

   • 1924 November 19, Henry Pittier, “New or little known Melastomataceae from Venezuela and Panama. II”, in Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences‎^[2], volume 14, number 19, JSTOR:

     In several of the known species, the leaves are said to be trinerved, or almost triplinerved; in a few others they are triplinerved; but in our specimens they are distinctly septuplinerved, the three pairs of opposite nerves showing in light gray on the upper face of the leaf, and being made more conspicuous on the lower face by a neat fringe of gray, h^[sic] hairs.