elastic |
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texture |
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Resiliently deformable with no loss of structural integrity. |
filamentous |
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texture |
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Composed of filiform (thread-like) strands with no intervening tissue. |
coriaceous |
= leathery |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
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Sticky or slimy. |
oily 2 |
= greasy, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
leathery |
= coriaceous |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
rigent |
= rigid, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
corky |
= suberous |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
farinaceous 1 |
= mealy; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. See also farinose. |
gelatinous |
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texture |
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Jelly-like; soft, moist, continuously cohesive, texturally homogeneous, somewhat resilient, and easily cut. |
parchment-like |
= pergamentaceous |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
callose |
= callous |
texture |
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Hard-leathery; callose tissue usually is also thicker than comparable adjacent tissue. |
oleaginous 2 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
rigid |
= rigent, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
callous |
= callose |
texture |
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Hard-leathery; callous tissue usually is also thicker than comparable adjacent tissue. |
ligneous |
= woody |
texture |
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Of or resembling xylem (wood). |
watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
corneous |
= horny |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
resinous 2 |
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texture |
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Having the consistency of resin. |
membranaceous |
= membranous |
texture |
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Extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like animal membrane. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
spongy |
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texture |
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Soft, light, discontinuous but cohesive, and somewhat resilient. |
brittle |
= friable |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
soft |
|
texture |
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Yielding under slight pressure. |
firm |
|
texture |
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Yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption. |
stiff |
= rigent, rigid |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |