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gummy |
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Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
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limp |
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texture |
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Lacking stiffness in in one or more dimensions, thus drooping or sagging where unsupported. |
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callous |
= callose |
texture |
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Hard-leathery; callous tissue usually is also thicker than comparable adjacent tissue. |
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brittle |
= friable |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
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mucous 2 |
= mucilaginous; < glutinous |
texture |
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Slimy. |
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fatiscent |
= crumbling; > farinaceous, mealy |
texture |
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Easily disintegrating in relatively small pieces, either spontaneously or under pressure. |
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rigent |
= rigid, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
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woody |
= ligneous |
texture |
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Of or resembling wood (xylem). |
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pergamentaceous |
= parchment-like |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
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corticate |
= hard-coated |
texture |
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Having a hard exterior layer and a distinct, softer interior. |
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carnose |
= fleshy, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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osseous |
= bony |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
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friable |
= brittle |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
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rigid |
= rigent, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
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spongy |
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texture |
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Soft, light, discontinuous but cohesive, and somewhat resilient. |
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mealy 1 |
= farinaceous; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of or bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. |
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latex pl. latices, latexes |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A moderately viscous and sticky exudate, often milky, sometimes otherwise colored or clear. Overlaps conceptually with gum. |
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elastoviscin |
= viscin |
SUBSTANCE |
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A sticky, elastic material, especially that forming the threads that sometimes connect pollen grains. |
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farina pl. farinae, farinas |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A dry, meal- or flour-like covering. |
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sap |
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SUBSTANCE |
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Generally, the fluid content of a plant body; more precisely, the sugary fluid transported by the phloem. |
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mucilage |
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substance |
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A slimy exudate. |
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nectar |
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SUBSTANCE |
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An aqueous exudate of high sugar content. |
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gum |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A highly viscous and sticky exudate that becomes more or less elastic and/or deformably solid upon drying. Overlaps conceptually with latex. |
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viscin |
= elastoviscin |
SUBSTANCE |
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A sticky, elastic material, especially that forming the threads that sometimes connect pollen grains. |
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resin |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A substance of high molecular weight consisting of organic acids, esters, and/or terpenes, produced within plant tissue and exuded from wounds as a liquid that hardens to an amorphous glassy state upon exposure. |
