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cryptic |
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coloration |
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Similar to its natural background, from which it is not readily distinguished. |
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cryptocotyloid |
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germination |
seed |
Having the cotyledon(s) remaining inside the seed coat. |
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cuboid |
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solid shape |
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Generally but not strictly cubic; more or less equilaterally six-sided, each side basically square. |
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cucullate 1 |
= hooded |
architecture |
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Bearing, incorporating, or surmounted by a hood-shaped structure. |
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cucullate 2 |
= cuculliform, hood-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex or compressed-convex overall with a distal peak or ridge, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a hood or cowl. See also galeate (galeiform, helmet-shaped), which overlaps conceptually. |
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cuculliform |
= cucullate, hood-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex or compressed-convex overall with a distal peak or ridge, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a hood or cowl. See also galeiform (galeate, helmet-shaped), which overlaps conceptually. |
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cucullus pl. cuculli |
= hood |
STRUCTURE |
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A cucullate (cuculliform) structure or component, esp. in an inflorescence or flower. |
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culm |
< cane, stem |
STRUCTURE |
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A stem of a sedge (Cyperaceae) or grass (Poaceae), usually hollow. Use of this term or cane instead of stem is a matter of tradition and preference, not of descriptive precision or necessity. |
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cuneate 1 |
= obtriangular, wedge-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
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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. |
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cuniculate |
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solid shape |
elongate structure |
Hollow over a significant part of its length, the interior open at the end of the hollow portion. |
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cup-shaped |
= calyciform, cupulate |
solid shape |
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Truncate-globose with the distal margin more or less entire; like the bowl of a cup. |
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cupulate |
= calyciform, cup-shaped |
solid shape |
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Truncate-globose with the distal margin more or less entire; like the bowl of a cup. |
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cupule |
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STRUCTURE |
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A cup-like structure inserted at the base of a fruit, partially enclosing it or not; composed of a persistent, usually dried, sometimes hardened involucre, perianth, or portion thereof, the constituent parts often coalescent, yielding a unitary structure. |
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curly |
= crispate, crisped |
margin |
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Having closely and irregularly spaced, irregularly shaped, often compound convexities that curve irregularly through three dimensions. |
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cushion-shaped |
= mound-shaped, pulvinate, pulviniform |
solid shape |
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Essentially round in transverse section, much broader than long or high, with a convex distal face that intersects either a more or less plane proximal face or, when the structure is sessile, its bearing surface. |
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cuspidate |
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apex |
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Tapering gradually to a rigid tip composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
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cut |
= incised, lacerate, torn; > laciniate, slashed |
plane shape |
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Having straight to irregular lines of separation extending inward from the margin. See also cleft (dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented). |
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cyathiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cyathia. |
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cyathiform |
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solid shape |
perianth, calyx, corolla, pappus |
Having a cupulate tube and an indistinct, erect limb. See also cotyliform, urceolate (urn-shaped). |
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cyathium pl. cyathia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Resembling a single flower, the unbranched axis very short with a terminal pistillate flower and several lateral staminate flowers, the whole subtended and to some degree enclosed by a cupulate envelope of bracts, the flowers diminutive and presumed to be evolutionarily reduced; characteristic of Euphorbia. |
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cycle |
= series, verticil, whorl |
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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cyclic |
= seriate, verticillate, whorled |
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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…cyclic |
= …seriate, …verticillate, …whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed in the number of cycles (series, verticils, whorls) indicated by the prefix; as in monocyclic, 3-cyclic. |
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cylindric(al) |
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solid shape |
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Solid and transversely round with a more or less uniform diameter, the ends blunt. |
