carpophore 1 |
< stalk |
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The stalk supporting a sporocarp. |
ovuliferous scale |
< cone scale, macrosporophyll (not recommended), megasporophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A fertile scale in a female cone (megastrobilus), bearing one or two naked ovules, and subsequently seed(s), subtended by and borne closely upon a sterile, fleshy or woody scale sometimes termed a bract scale; in Pinophyta. |
concolor(ous) |
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coloration |
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Uniform in hue and intensity of color; esp. leaves with identically colored adaxial and abaxial surfaces. |
pustule |
= blister, bulla |
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A relatively coarse, rounded protrusion or convexity. See also papilla. |
elastic |
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texture |
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Resiliently deformable with no loss of structural integrity. |
rugulose |
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relief |
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Slightly or finely rugose (corrugate, wrinkled). |
filament |
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STRUCTURE |
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The stalk, when present, of a stamen, clearly differentiated from and bearing at its summit an anther. |
shoot 2 |
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A vascularized axis that is differentiated into nodes and internodes and that branches exogenously from the former, together with any non-axial structures borne from it. |
glaucescent |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Becoming glaucous with age. See also caesious. |
staminodial |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the staminodes. |
horizontal |
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orientation |
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Parallel to the horizon, perpendicular to the force of gravity. |
swollen |
= tumid, turgid |
solid shape |
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Engorged in appearance, convex overall with the surface appearing taut , as though from internal pressure. See also inflated, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
laciniate |
= slashed; < cut, incised, lacerate, torn |
plane shape |
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Having relatively close, more or less straight lines of separation exending inward from the margin. See also cleft (dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented). |
tuber |
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STRUCTURE |
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An enlarged, basically subterranean stem segment or thallus outgrowth containing a high proportion of storage tissue and functioning as a perennating and often vegetatively propagative structure. |
waxen 1 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
androgynophore |
< stalk |
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A stalk that rises above the level of perianth insertion and bears the free portions of both androecium and gynoecium from its summit; as in Passifloraceae. |
barb 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A trichome terminated by one or two small, relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely reflexed appendages. |
microsporophyll |
> cone scale |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporophyll that bears only microsporangia. |
campanulate |
= bell-shaped |
solid shape |
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Circular in transverse section, inflated proximally, thence broadening gradually to a flared distal portion. |
oleaginous 1 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
coating |
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Of a grease- or oil-like film. |
pseudoaxillary |
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position |
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Only apparently axillary; originally extraaxillary but displaced to the axil by differential growth during development. |
dot-like |
= punctiform |
plane shape |
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Very small and generally circular in outline. |
rigent |
= rigid, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
septal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the septum or septa. |
furrow |
= colpus, fossula, groove, sulcus, vallecula |
FEATURE |
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An elongate depression that is relatively shallow and narrow. |