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watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
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gynophore |
= hypogynium; < stalk, stipe (broad sense, not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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The basal portion of an ovary when constricted and stalk-like above the level of perianth insertion, bearing the main body of the pistil at its summit. |
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spore |
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STRUCTURE |
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A simple, usually unicellular, sometimes oligocellular propagule derived by meiotic division of a diploid (2n chromosomes) sporocyte within a sporangium, thus of haploid (n chromosomes) genetic constitution. A spore constitutes the first ontogenetic stage of a gametophytic generation and gives rise to a usually multicellular gametophyte upon germination. Though technically present in seed-bearing plants, by itself it is descriptively significant only in those taxa that do not produce seeds. |
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compact |
= congested, crowded |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed very near to one another. |
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lip cell |
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Either of a pair of adjacent, narrow, transversely oriented, thick-walled cells bordering the pore (stomium) of a sporangium. |
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bristle-shaped |
= setaceous, setiform |
solid shape |
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Elongate, slender, terete, straight, terminating in a fine point, and apparently stiff. |
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tuberculate |
= tuberculose, verrucose, warty |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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flower |
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STRUCTURE |
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A functionally integrated, complex structure comprising sets of sporophytic and/or associated sterile structures disposed in standard sequence along a common axis; consisting of one or more constituent members each of, in ascending (proximal to distal) order of insertion, perianth (tepals, or else sepals and/or petals), androecium (stamens, staminodes and/or other associated structures), and/or gynoecium (pistils and/or other associated structures), the foregoing all borne laterally from the distal portion (receptacle) of the axis; depending upon the combination of structures present, may be bisexual, staminate only, pistillate only, or sterile; characteristic of and unique to the Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae). When a fertile androecium and gynoecium are both present a flower is termed perfect. When perfect and also with calyx and corolla both present, a flower is termed complete. Both terms are somewhat archaic and of limited descriptive value. |
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oily 2 |
= greasy, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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horseshoe-shaped |
= hippocrepiform |
solid shape |
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Relatively slender and strongly compressed, the whole strongly curved over its length in a plane perpendicular to the direction of compression and forming an incomplete circle, the ends somewhat straighter than the rest and parallel or nearly so; like a horseshoe. |
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strigillose |
= strigulose |
pubescence |
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Finely strigose. |
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dorsiventral |
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architecture |
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Having structurally distinct abaxial (dorsal) and adaxial (ventral) portions or aspects. |
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midvein |
= midnerve, midrib; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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caudex pl. caudices |
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STRUCTURE |
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The short, persistent, thickened, more or less erect, main stem of a perennial plant that otherwise has annual stems. |
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ventrifixed |
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fixation |
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Attached on the adaxial side well above the base. |
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club-shaped |
= clavate |
solid shape |
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Elongate and basically round in transverse section, the diameter greatest at or near a blunt apex, thence attenuate toward the base, the degree of taper greatest between the middle and the upper quarter. |
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blister |
= bulla, pustule |
FEATURE |
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A relatively coarse, rounded protrusion or convexity. See also papilla. |
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equatorial ridge |
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FEATURE |
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A circumferential ring about a megaspore in the plane of its equator, raised above the remainder of the wall surface; in some heterosporous taxa of Polypodiophyta. |
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oblanciform |
= oblanceoloid |
solid shape |
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Inversely lanciform (lancehead-shaped, lanceoloid). |
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stiff |
= rigent, rigid |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
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disc 2 var. disk |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, the disc florets of a capitulum (head), or the surface presented by them. |
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corrugate 2 |
= rugose, wrinkled |
relief |
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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. |
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…pterous |
= …winged |
architecture |
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Having the number of alae (wings) indicated by the prefix; as in dipterous, polypterous, tetrapterous. |
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tree-like |
= dendritic |
architecture |
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Like the branched axial structure of a tree. |
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medial |
= central, median |
position |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
