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awn |
= arista, bristle, seta |
STRUCTURE |
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A slender, more or less straight and stiff, fine-pointed, terminal or subterminal appendage or prolongation, sometimes a continuation of the bearing structure's central primary vein, as on a glume, lemma, or palea in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
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awned |
= aristate, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more awns (aristae, bristles, setae). |
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axehead-shaped |
= dolabrate |
solid shape |
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Like an axe head oriented cutting edge downward. |
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axe-shaped |
= dolabriform |
solid shape |
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Elongate, basally terete, becoming strongly compressed toward an abruptly and unilaterally broader apex; like an axe (handle plus head). |
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axil |
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The space bounded by and near the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
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axile |
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placentation |
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Upon the central axis of a compound, plurilocular ovary. |
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axillary |
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insertion |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
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axillary |
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position |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
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axis pl. axes |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unitary and longitudinally continuous structure that bears laterally the subordinate portion(s), if any, of a plant root or shoot or any subdivision thereof and that represents the main line of structural development and/or symmetry distal to its origin, irrespective of the particular ontogenetic growth pattern involved. See also primary axis. |
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baccate |
= berry-like |
architecture |
fruit |
Having the structure and texture of a berry. |
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bag-shaped |
= pouch-shaped, saccate, sack-shaped |
solid shape |
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Irregularly obovoid with an exterior aspect intermediate between inflated and flaccid; like a closed pouch or bag. |
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bald |
= glabrous, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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balding |
= glabrescent |
pubescence |
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Becoming bald (glabrous, psilate) with age. |
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banded |
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coloration |
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Broadly striped; having one or more elongate, relatively broad and, when multiple, more or less parallel, areas of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
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banner |
= standard, vexillum |
STRUCTURE |
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The relatively large, erect adaxial (upper) petal in a papilionaceous corolla. |
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barb 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal or lateral appendage. |
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barb 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A trichome terminated by one or two small, relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely reflexed appendages. |
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barbate |
= bearded |
pubescence |
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Having one or more limited sectors bearing fairly long, erect, flexible, capillary trichomes. |
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barbed 1 |
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apex |
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Terminated by a small, relatively stiff, acutely reflexed, hook-like structure. |
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barbed 2 |
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solid shape |
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Having one or more relatively short, stiff, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal and/or lateral hook-like appendages; esp. awns or setae. |
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barbel |
= barbella |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barb. |
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barbella pl. barbellae |
= barbel |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barb. |
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barbellate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbels. |
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barbellula pl. barbellulae |
= barbellule |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barbel (barbella); a very diminutive barb. |
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barbellulate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbellules (barbellulae). |
