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papery |
= chartaceous, papyraceous |
texture |
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Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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oleaginous 2 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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medullose |
= pithy |
texture |
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Loose or spongy internally, denser and firmer externally. |
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glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
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Sticky or slimy. |
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bony |
= osseous |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
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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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waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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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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coriaceous |
= leathery |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
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weak |
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texture |
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Very pliable and unresilient. |
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crumbling |
= fatiscent; > farinaceous, mealy |
texture |
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Easily disintegrating in relatively small pieces, either spontaneously or under pressure. |
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supple |
= flexible, pliable, pliant |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
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elastic |
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texture |
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Resiliently deformable with no loss of structural integrity. |
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corky |
= suberous |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
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hyphodromous |
= one-veined, single-veined |
venation |
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Having one median, primary vein and no other venation externally evident. |
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eucamptodromous |
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venation |
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Having a single median primary vein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, the secondary veins upwardly arcuate, gradually becoming indistinct interior to the margin, and serially interconnected by cross-branches without formation of marginal loops. |
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parallelodromous |
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venation |
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Having two or more primary veins that run more or less parallel to one another over most of the laminar length and converge near the apex. |
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one-veined |
= hyphodromous, single-veined |
venation |
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Having one median, primary vein and no other venation externally evident. |
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palinactinodromous |
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venation |
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Compound actinodromous, with higher-order branch radiations above the level of and similar to the primary one. |
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simple-craspedodromous |
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venation |
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Having a midvein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, the secondary veins and their branches all running toward and terminating at the margin. |
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semicraspedodromous |
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venation |
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Having a single median primary vein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, each secondary vein running thence toward and bifurcate near the margin, one branch terminating at the margin, the other upwardly arcuate and merging with the superadjacent secondary vein, thus forming one of a series of marginal loops. |
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anadromous |
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venation |
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Having the first lateral vein in each pinna or primary segment of the frond arise from its midvein on the side toward the apex of the frond, the pinnule or secondary segment that it leads to often disproportionately larger than the next distal ones. |
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single-veined |
= hyphodromous, one-veined |
venation |
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Having one median, primary vein and no other venation externally evident. |
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campylodromous |
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venation |
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Having several primary and/or strongly developed secondary veins that diverge from a point or small area near the base of the blade and run thence ultimately toward the apex, recurving proximally, arcuate and converging distally, reaching the apex or not. |
