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Three example sentences with basal, each labelled with its topic.
The basal leaves of the rosette survive the frost even when everything above them dies back completely.
Environment
She lit the basal rosette from the side so that each vein showed against the dark soil.
Photography
Botanists count basal shoots each spring to estimate how much the clump has spread underground since the survey.
Science
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