tessarace (tesarase)

[ σαρες, four (see four ), + δεκάς ( δεκαδ- ), the number ten: see decad.] A group of fourteen individuals; an aggregate of fourteen. Farrar. te arescædecahedron (tes-a-res-ē-dek-a-hēʼdron), n. [LGr. τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάεδρον, J. Hardyng, Chron. of Eng. (ed. Ellis, 1812), p. 47. von, 1794), named after L. Te ari, profe or Te aria of botany at Ancona.] A genus of composite plants, of the tribe Inuloideæ and subtribe Plu cheineæ. It is distinguished from the related genus Pluchea by hoary or silky and shrubby stems bearing small cymose or corymbose heads with an ovoid involucre of two kinds of bracts, the outer somewhat woolly, the inner scarious and often shining. The 5 species are all American, and chiefly of temperate or mountainous parts of the west coast from Chili to California. They resemble species of Gnaphalium or life-everlasting in their frequent white-woolly clothing; their leaves are alternate entire and toothed; their flowers are purplish and small, and are sometimes very numerous. See arrow - wood.