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epipterous |
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solid shape |
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Alate with a single terminal wing. |
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saddle-shaped |
= selliform |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin, broad and long, strongly compound-curved, concavely from end to end and convexly from side to side; like the generalized shape of a saddle. |
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tubular |
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solid shape |
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Cylindric or attenuate-cylindric overall and with a hollow interior open at one or both ends. |
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flabellate |
= fan-shaped, flabelliform |
solid shape |
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Strongly compressed, broadest near the apex and attenuate to a narrow base, plaited longitudinally, the alternating folds radiating from the base, the whole basically triangular in broad aspect; like a partially expanded folding fan. |
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squamiform |
= scale-like |
solid shape |
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Isodiametric to elongate in broad outline, relatively very thin, and planate to moderately concave-convex. |
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hypocrateriform |
= salverform |
solid shape |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Having a relatively long, slender tube and a divaricate, planate limb resembling a round platter. |
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laminar 2 |
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solid shape |
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Relatively very thin with parallel opposite broad faces, the whole plane or variously curved. Structures to which this term, along with any other three-dimensional ones, is applicable are often also described as though only two-dimensional, using terms that are implicitly understood to refer only to the outline of the broad faces. |
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capitiform |
= capitate, head-shaped |
solid shape |
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Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. |
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prismatic |
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solid shape |
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Uniformly polygonal in transverse section, basally and apically truncate, all faces essentially plane. |
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suborbicular |
= subglobose, subrotund, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost orbicular, slightly longer than broad. |
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kidney-shaped 2 |
= reniform |
solid shape |
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Thickly elongate and arcuate, circular or compressed-circular in transverse section, each end bluntly rounded; like the generalized shape of a human kidney. |
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hair-like |
= capillary, capillate |
solid shape |
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Finely filiform; resembling a hair. |
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deltoid |
< three-angled, trigonous, triquetrous |
solid shape |
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Three-angular (trigonous, triquetrous), broadest at the base, and regularly attenuate to an angular apex; equilaterally pyramidal with three lateral faces. See also obdeltoid. |
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flabelliform |
= fan-shaped, flabellate |
solid shape |
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Strongly compressed, broadest near the apex and attenuate to a narrow base, plaited longitudinally, the alternating folds radiating from the base, the whole basically triangular in broad aspect; like a partially expanded folding fan. |
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gongylodate |
= gongyloid, knob-shaped, knot-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
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Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
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obterete |
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solid shape |
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Inversely terete. |
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unequal |
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size |
equivalent structures |
Distinctly differing in extent. See also equal, subequal. |
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enlarged |
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size |
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Unusually or unexpectedly large. |
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gigantic |
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size |
plant |
Strongly enlarged; unusually or unexpectedly very large throughout. |
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equal |
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size |
equivalent structures |
Essentially uniform in extent. See also subequal, unequal. |
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reduced |
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size |
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Unusually or unexpectedly small. |
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subequal |
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size |
equivalent structures |
Nearly uniform in extent. See also equal, unequal. |
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dwarfed |
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size |
plant |
Strongly reduced; unusually or unexpectedly very small throughout. |
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digamous |
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reproduction |
inflorescence |
Bearing flowers of two differing sexual constitutions; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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feminine |
= female |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
