fleshy |
= carnose, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
membranous |
= membranaceous |
texture |
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Extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like animal membrane. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
crustaceous |
= crusty |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
fleshy-stemmed |
= sarcocaulous |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are fleshy (carnose, sarcous). |
indurate(d) |
= hard |
texture |
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Yielding only under strong pressure; not deformable without internal structural disruption. See also callose (callous), corticate (hard-coated), sclerocaulous (hard-stemmed). |
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. |
crusty |
= crustaceous |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
greasy 2 |
= oily, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
parchment-like |
= pergamentaceous |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
corneous |
= horny |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
callose |
= callous |
texture |
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Hard-leathery; callose tissue usually is also thicker than comparable adjacent tissue. |
scarious |
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texture |
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Very thin, dry, and not green. |
succulent |
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texture |
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Herbaceous and juicy, often thickened (incrassate). |
suberous |
= corky |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
flexible |
= pliable, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
callous |
= callose |
texture |
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Hard-leathery; callous tissue usually is also thicker than comparable adjacent tissue. |
mucilage |
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substance |
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A slimy exudate. |
nectar |
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SUBSTANCE |
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An aqueous exudate of high sugar content. |
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. |
viscin |
= elastoviscin |
SUBSTANCE |
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A sticky, elastic material, especially that forming the threads that sometimes connect pollen grains. |
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. |
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. |
elastoviscin |
= viscin |
SUBSTANCE |
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A sticky, elastic material, especially that forming the threads that sometimes connect pollen grains. |
farina pl. farinae, farinas |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A dry, meal- or flour-like covering. |
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. |