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parchment-like |
= pergamentaceous |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
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parietal |
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placentation |
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Upon the inner wall surface of a unilocular ovary, thus peripheral within the locule. |
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paripinnate |
= even-pinnate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with each order pinnate and comprising an even number of members, none truly terminal. |
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parted |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, partite, segmented |
plane shape |
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Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that 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 protrusions 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). |
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…parted |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …partite, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted. |
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parted |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, partite, segmented |
solid shape |
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Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that 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 protrusions 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). |
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…parted |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted. |
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partial |
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extent |
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Not reaching fully from the ovary wall or pericarp to the center of the ovary or fruit and/or from the apex to the base of its interior, thus not completely separating adjacent locules, which are recognized and delimited by extrapolating from the incomplete septal boundary(ies), the ovary or fruit nonetheless effectively unilocular. |
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partite |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, segmented |
plane shape |
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Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that 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 protrusions 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). |
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…partite |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in tripartite. |
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partite |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, segmented |
solid shape |
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Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that 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 protrusions 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). |
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…partite |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in tripartite. |
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patelliform |
= kneecap-shaped |
solid shape |
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Thickly meniscoid, like a human kneecap. |
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patent |
= porrect, salient, spreading |
orientation |
lateral structure |
Antrorse and diverging at an acute angle from the bearing structure. |
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pear-shaped |
= pyriform |
solid shape |
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Basically circular in transverse section, broadest toward one end, attenuate toward and much narrower at the other, both ends rounded; slenderly turbinate or obturbinate; like a pear. |
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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. |
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pedate |
= pedatifid |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Palmately divided with the two proximal lateral lobes each 2-parted. |
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pedatifid |
= pedate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Palmately divided with the two proximal lateral lobes each 2-parted. |
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pedicel |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk, when present, of a single flower, except when the flower is solitary and deemed to represent an evolutionarily reduced compound inflorescence borne directly upon a peduncle. |
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pedicellate |
< stalked |
architecture |
flower |
Having a pedicel. |
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peduncle |
<stalk, stipe (broad sense, not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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The common stalk, when present, of a compound inflorescence or first-order subunit thereof, or of a solitary flower that is deemed to represent an evolutionarily reduced compound inflorescence. |
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pedunculate |
< stalked |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having a peduncle. |
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pellucid |
= hyaline; > translucent, transparent |
coloration |
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Transmitting light uniformly. |
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peloric |
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architecture |
corolla |
Regular when the usual condition in the taxon is irregular. |
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peltate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Petiolate with the petiole attached to the abaxial face of the blade at some point within the margin and otherwise free from the blade. |
