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viscid 2 |
< glutinous |
texture |
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Sticky. |
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viscidium pl. viscidia |
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STRUCTURE |
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A small, viscid, glandular body of rostellar origin that becomes connected with a pollinium caudicle, either directly or through an intervening stipe, by which the pollinium attaches to a pollinating insect; in Orchidaceae. |
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viscin |
= elastoviscin |
SUBSTANCE |
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A sticky, elastic material, especially that forming the threads that sometimes connect pollen grains. |
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viviparous |
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reproduction |
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Producing sexually or asexually generated offspring that begin growth and development while borne upon the parent plant. |
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voluble |
= twining |
habit |
axis |
Coiling about other plants or objects during growth, thus achieving support. |
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waisted |
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solid shape |
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Constricted in width or breadth at or near the middle of its length. |
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wall (fruit, ovary, pollen, spore) |
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STRUCTURE |
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The exterior layer of tissue(s) enclosing anatomically distinct interior tissues and sometimes fluid and/or one or more cavities. |
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wand-like |
= virgate |
architecture |
axis |
Long, slender, unbranched, and more or less straight. |
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warty |
= tuberculate, tuberculose, verrucose |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
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wavy |
= undulate |
margin |
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Having regular, curved, smoothly connected, alternating, wave-like deviations upward and downward from the general plane of the structure. |
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waxen 1 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
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waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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waxy 1 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
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waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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weak |
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texture |
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Very pliable and unresilient. |
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wedge-shaped 1 |
= cuneate, obtriangular |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
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wedge-shaped 2 |
= cuneate, obtriangular |
plane shape |
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Inversely triangular; like the outline of the broad lateral face of a wedge, broadest at the apex. See also obdeltate. |
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weeping |
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architecture |
plant |
Having elongate, flexible, pendent branches. |
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wheel-shaped |
= rotate |
solid shape |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Having a very short, cupulate tube and a broad, divergent to divaricate limb; resembling a wheel when viewed from the distal end. |
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whip-like |
= flagelliform |
solid shape |
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Very slender, terete, generally straight, and apparently supple. |
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whorl |
= cycle, series, verticil |
STRUCTURE |
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A set of three or more lateral structures that are inserted around an axis at the same level. |
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whorled |
= cyclic, seriate, verticillate |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in groups of three or more, the members of each group (cycle, series, verticil, whorl) inserted around the axis at the same level. |
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…whorled |
= …cyclic, …seriate, …verticillate |
arrangement |
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Disposed in the number of whorls (cycles, series, verticils) indicated by the prefix; as in three-whorled, 1-whorled. |
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wind-pollinated |
= anemophilous |
reproduction |
plant, strobilus, flower |
Having the pollen normally transported between strobili or flowers by air currents. |
