Habit
A flattened, tuberous, cactus-like plant with a very low trunk and a very wide, exaggerated diameter without substantive branching whatsoever with exception to several extremely short flattened "branch"-like nodes or rosettes of leaves.
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Famous quotes containing the word habit:
“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.”
—Eric Taylor, Leroux, and Arthur Lubin. Raoul Daubert (Edgar Barrier)
“A habit does not a monk make.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)