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tuberculate |
= tuberculose, verrucose, warty |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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smooth 1 |
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Even or unrelieved overall. Strictly applied, this term refers only to the surface proper; however, it is often used to mean glabrous as well. |
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lacunate |
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Having relatively large and deep depressions overall. |
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tuberculose 1 |
= tuberculate, verrucose, warty |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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bullate |
= blistered, puckered, pustulate |
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Having relatively coarse, irregularly disposed, rounded protrusions or convexities resembling blisters. See also papillate (papillose). |
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smooth 2 |
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bark |
Unfissured; not cracked or split to any significant degree. |
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muricate |
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Having short, hard, more or less acute, transversely round protrusions overall. See also muriculate. |
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ringed |
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Fissured, mainly horizontally, with at least some of the fissures individually encircling the stem more or less completely. |
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areolate |
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Having numerous, small, irregularly disposed, transversely angular, shallow depressions or low protrusions overall. |
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scabrellate |
= scabrellous, scabridulous |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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scabrellous |
= scabrellate, scabridulous |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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muriculate |
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Finely muricate. |
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foveate |
= pitted |
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Having numerous, small, rounded depressions. See also foveolate (fine-pitted, scrobiculate). |
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fine-pitted |
= foveolate, scrobiculate |
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Finely pitted (foveate). |
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laevigate 1 |
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Very smooth. |
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foveolate |
= fine-pitted, scrobiculate |
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Finely foveate (pitted). |
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reticulate 3 |
= netted |
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Having prominulous, more or less regularly interconnected lines. |
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alveolate |
= honeycombed |
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Having generally uniform, regularly and closely disposed, transversely polygonal depressions overall, the pattern resembling the external aspect of a honeycomb. |
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pitted |
= foveate |
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Having numerous, small, rounded depressions. See also fine-pitted (foveolate, scrobiculate). |
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fissured |
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relief |
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Split or cracked vertically, diagonally, and/or horizontally in a regular or irregular pattern, the fissures not encircling the stem individually. |
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exfoliating |
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relief |
bark |
Shallowly and distantly fissured, falling away in thin, relatively large patches or sheets. |
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streaked 2 |
= striate; < lineate |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |
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checkered 2 |
= tessellate |
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Having a pattern of regularly disposed squares marked by raised or depressed vasculature. |
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chewed |
= ruminate |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
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corrugate 2 |
= rugose, wrinkled |
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Having irregular, narrow ridges or creases, the intervening areas flat or only slightly concave or convex, appearing overall as though crumpled and then spread out. See also rugulose. |
