acute |
= sharp |
apex |
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Sharply angular; regularly and more or less straightly attenuate to an angular tip, the sides intersecting at an angle of less than 90°. |
non-porous |
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porosity |
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Lacking vessels, the tracheary elements limited to tracheids and, sometimes, fiber-tracheids. |
spheroid(al) |
= globose, globular, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al) |
solid shape |
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Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a sphere or globe. |
fruit |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unitary seed-bearing structure of a flowering plant, consisting of the matured or ripened pistil(s) of one or more flowers along with any other floral or vegetative tissue(s) persisting adnate to them; characteristic of and unique to Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae). |
half-terete |
= semiterete |
solid shape |
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Terete but flattened on one side. |
unilateral 3 |
= one-sided |
insertion |
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Upon or arising from one side only of the bearing structure. |
tapeworm-shaped |
= taeniate |
solid shape |
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Slender, elongate, basically cylindric or compressed-cylindric with shallow, narrow, more or less regular constrictions along its length, the whole apparently segmented and straight or variously curved. |
ennea… |
= nine-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by nine entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in enneandrous, enneafoliolate, enneastylous. |
auricle |
= ear |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, rounded, lateral lobe at the base of a laminar structure, lying in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. |
discal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the floral disc. |
abaxial |
= dorsal (not recommended) |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) away from the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
granuliferous |
= powdery, pulverulent |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of fine, dry particles. See also lentiginous (dusty, lentiginose), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
two-… |
= bi…, di… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by two entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in two-cleft, two-flowered, two-loculed. See also individual entries for terms with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination; and also double-… (bi…, twice-…). |
surficial |
= superficial |
position |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
hypanthium 2 (strict sense) pl. hypanthia |
= floral cup (strict sense) |
STRUCTURE |
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A marginal protrusion from or enlargement of the receptacle (torus) of a flower, encircling and wholly, partly or not at all adnate to the gynoecium, bearing the perianth and androecium. |
craspedodromous, simple- |
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venation |
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Having a midvein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, the secondary veins and their branches all running toward and terminating at the margin. |
eccentric |
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position |
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Having a center or axis of symmetry not coincident with that of the context of reference. |
penta… |
= five-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by five entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in pentandrous, pentacarpellate, pentacolporate. |
retuse |
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apex |
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Round overall with an obtuse terminal sinus. |
prolate |
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solid shape |
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Symmetrically elongate parallel to the developmental or polar axis. |
seedling |
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PLANT |
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A plant in the first stages of its growth following emergence from the seed. |
raised |
> prominent, prominulous |
prominence |
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Protruding above the general level of the surrounding surface. |
whip-like |
= flagelliform |
solid shape |
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Very slender, terete, generally straight, and apparently supple. |
striped |
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coloration |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and, when multiple, more or less parallel, areas of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
complex |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more basic structural entities, at least two of which are dissimilar. |