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gelatinous |
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texture |
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Jelly-like; soft, moist, continuously cohesive, texturally homogeneous, somewhat resilient, and easily cut. |
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geminate |
= conjugate, paired |
arrangement |
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Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. |
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geminicolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having four or more surficial grooves (colpi) disposed in pairs. |
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gemma pl. gemmae |
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STRUCTURE |
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A vegetative propagule by which a gametophyte reproduces asexually; produced by a process analogous to budding, from a more or less cupulate specialized area (gemmae cup) on the surface of the plant body (thallus); in Psilotophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta. |
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geniculate |
= kneed |
solid shape |
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Elongate, abruptly bent, somewhat thicker at the angle, and appearing as though articulate like a leg at the knee. |
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germination 1 |
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CHARACTER |
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The process wherein a dormant embryo resumes active metabolism and growth, the primary root and shoot emerging from the seed coat, the young sporophyte thereupon entering the seedling stage. |
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germination 2 |
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CHARACTER |
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The process wherein the contents of a spore begin active growth, exiting the confines of the spore wall via a pore or crack and giving rise to a gametophyte. |
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gibbous |
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solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the base. |
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gigantic |
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size |
plant |
Strongly enlarged; unusually or unexpectedly very large throughout. |
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glabrate |
= near-bald |
pubescence |
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Nearly glabrous, with only a very sparse covering of trichomes. |
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glabrescent |
= balding |
pubescence |
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Becoming glabrous (bald, psilate) with age. |
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glabrous |
= bald, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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gland |
> nectary |
STRUCTURE |
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An anatomically distinct multicellular structure that produces and exudes a particular substance, or resembles those that do. |
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glandless |
= eglandular |
architecture |
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Lacking glands. |
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glandular 1 |
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architecture |
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Having one or more glands. |
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glandular 2 |
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exudation |
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Anatomically distinct and producing and exuding a particular substance. |
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glans pl. glandes |
= acorn |
nominative |
fruit |
A nut subtended by a persistent, hard, cap-like involucre of numerous, coherent, imbricate bracts; esp. in Fagaceae. |
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glaucescent |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Becoming glaucous with age. See also caesious. |
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glaucous |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Whitish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, whitish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also caesious, glaucescent. |
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glittering |
= splendent |
reflectance |
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Interruptedly glossy (laevigate, lustrous, polished, shining, shiny, and thus sparkling when viewed from changing angles. |
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globose |
= globular, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al), spheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a globe or sphere. |
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globular |
= globose, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al), spheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a globe or sphere. |
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glochid |
= glochidium; < bristle, capillus, hair, seta, trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A capillus (hair) or bristle (seta) that bears one or more barbs; esp. in Cactaceae. |
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glochidiate |
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pubescence |
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Bearing glochids (glochidia). |
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glochidium pl. glochidia |
= glochid; < bristle, capillus, hair, seta, trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A capillus (hair) or bristle (seta) that bears one or more barbs; esp. in Cactaceae. |
