waxy 1 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
habit |
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General appearance and/or function, usually including explicit or implicit reference to one or more aspects of habitat or other features of the external environment; a logically imprecise traditional category of terms that overlaps conceptually with architecture, arrangement, duration, insertion, location, orientation, position, shape, and texture. |
sporocarp |
= spore body |
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A multicellular structure that bears and more or less encloses several to (usually) many sporangia, the latter often aggregated into sori within it See also megasporocarp (macrosporocarp, not recommended), microsporocarp. |
lobate |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobed, parted, partite, segmented |
solid shape |
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Having one or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that is/are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that is/are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
fluted |
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solid shape |
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Having rounded to angular longitudinal grooves. |
septal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the septum or septa. |
one-… |
= mono…, single-…, uni… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by one entity of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in one-carpelled, one-loculed, one-seeded. See also entries for particular terms beginning with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination. |
acropetal |
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development |
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Proceeding toward the apex, thus more advanced basally or proximally than apically or distally within a given frame of reference. |
pectinate |
= comb-shaped |
plane shape |
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Finely divided, the divisions slender, oriented more or less perpendicular to the central axis, and resembling the teeth of a comb. |
hydrocyanic |
= almondy |
odor |
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Pungently fruity like almonds, due to the presence of hydrocyanin or a closely related compound. |
dotted 2 |
= punctate |
relief |
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Having small, round, shallow depressions or low protrusions. See also small-dotted (puncticulate). |
beak 2 |
= rostrum |
STRUCTURE |
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The inner, horn-like segment of a coronal lobe; esp. in Asclepiadaceae. |
rachis 1 var. rhachis |
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STRUCTURE |
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A main or first-order axis of a compound leaf blade. |
versatile |
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fixation |
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Attached in a manner allowing free rotation and declination. |
glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
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Sticky or slimy. |
planoconvex |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad faces, one plane and one convex. |
cuneate 2 |
= obtriangular, wedge-shaped |
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. |
antherozoid |
= spermatozoid; < sperm |
STRUCTURE |
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A motile male gamete, produced within an antheridium. |
plantlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A juvenile, complete plant produced asexually by budding, as from the leaf margin in some Kalanchoë (Crassulaceae); this term is usually applied only while such vegetatively produced offspring remain attached to the plant of origin. |
leptosporangiate |
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reproduction |
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Having relatively small sporangia each of which develops from a single initial cell that, by periclinal division, gives rise to an outer and an inner cell, the former then giving rise to the entire sporangium, including contents and sporangiophore, the latter contributing nothing to it; in some Polypodiophyta. |
eroded |
= erose |
relief |
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Having rough, very irregular depressions throughout. |
hilum 2 pl. hila |
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The more or less central point within a starch grain of intracellular origin, about which the successive layers of starch were accreted more or less symmetrically. |
puckered |
= blistered, bullate, pustulate |
relief |
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Having relatively coarse, irregularly disposed, rounded protrusions or convexities resembling blisters. See also papillate, papillose. |
branchlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A branch of the highest or ultimate order. |
megaphyll |
= leaf, macrophyll (not recommended); > frond, needle |
STRUCTURE |
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A principal, vegetative shoot organ borne laterally from a stem node; its vascular tissues, if any, continuous with those of the stem; undergoing no significant secondary growth; usually more or less bilaterally symmetrical; comprising a distal, usually laminar blade and/or a proximal stalk (petiole) or sheath; usually a primary site of photosynthesis. |