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feminine |
= female |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
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fenestrate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more or less isodiametric, regularly disposed lacunae. |
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fertile |
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reproduction |
plant, reproductive structure |
Producing functional spores, gametes, pollen, ovules, seeds, or other propagules. |
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fertile frond |
< spore leaf, sporophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A frond that bears sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also sterile frond (trophophyll). |
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fetid |
= putrid |
odor |
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Stinking like rotting flesh. |
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few-… |
= oligo… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by a relatively small number of entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in few-celled, few-flowered, few-seeded. See also many… (multi-…, pluri…, poly…). |
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fibrous |
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texture |
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Having tough, woody or sclerotic strands distributed through a softer matrix. |
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fibrous root |
< diffuse root |
STRUCTURE |
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A diffuse root that includes a significant component of woody or sclerotic strands and is consequently tough and often wiry. |
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fibrous-rooted |
< diffuse-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Diffuse-rooted with fibrous roots. See also taprooted. |
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…fid |
? …cleft, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in bifid, quadrifid. |
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…fid |
? …cleft, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in bifid, quadrifid. |
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fiddlehead |
= crozier |
STRUCTURE |
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A circinate leaf (frond) prior to full expansion, while still wholly or distally coiled; esp. in Polypodiophyta. |
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fiddle-shaped |
= pandurate |
plane shape |
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Basically obovate but with deep, rounded sinuses opposite one another in the proximal half; like the frontal outline of an inverted fiddle body. |
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fig |
= syconium; < coenocarp, infructescence (not recommended), multiple fruit, syncarp |
nominative |
fruit |
Compound and derived from a many-flowered inflorescence borne on the deeply invaginated, thus interior, surface of an enlarged, fleshy, enclosing, wall-like structure of accessory stem tissue that has a distal aperture (ostiole); the individual fruits tiny, dry, and indehiscent, each derived from a simple, superior ovary; in Ficus (Moraceae). |
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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. |
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filamentous |
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texture |
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Composed of filiform (thread-like) strands with no intervening tissue. |
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filiform |
= thread-like |
solid shape |
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Elongate and very slender, basically round in transverse section and of more or less uniform diameter, variously curved over its length or not. See also capillary (capillate, hair-like). |
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fimbria pl. fimbriae |
= fringe |
STRUCTURE |
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A marginal series or cycle of regular, slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible divisions or protrusions, when treated as an aggregate structure. |
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fimbriate |
= fringed |
margin |
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Regularly divided into slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments, or having protrusions that give the appearance of such division. See also fimbrillate (fine-fringed). |
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fimbrillate |
= fine-fringed |
margin |
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Finely fimbriate (fringed). |
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fine-fringed |
= fimbrillate |
margin |
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Finely fringed (fimbriate). |
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fine-pitted |
= foveolate, scrobiculate |
relief |
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Finely pitted (foveate). |
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firm |
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texture |
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Yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption. |
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first glume |
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STRUCTURE |
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The lower (proximal) or sometimes solitary small bract inserted at the base of a grass (Poaceae) spikelet, the second glume, when present, inserted immediately above (distal to) it. |
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fissure |
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FEATURE |
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A relatively narrow, split or crack in the outer tissue(s) of a structure. |
