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cloying |
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odor |
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Sickeningly sweet. |
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muricate |
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relief |
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Having short, hard, more or less acute, transversely round protrusions overall. See also muriculate. |
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stomatiferous |
= stomate-bearing |
architecture |
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Having stomates present in the epidermis. |
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turnip-shaped |
= napiform |
solid shape |
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Depressed-globose overall and strongly concave-tapered (acuminate) at the base; like the generalized form of a turnip. |
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bud-scale scar |
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FEATURE |
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A scar on a stem due to abscission of a bud scale. The scar(s) encircle(s) the axis to which the bud was terminal, each single scar having an outline like that of a transverse section through the base of the bud scale that was inserted there. Sets of bud scale scars (one set per bud) usually delimit seasonal stem growth increments in temperate zone taxa. |
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cymbiform |
= boat-shaped, navicular |
solid shape |
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Like the generalized form of a boat hull, the walls relatively thin to moderately thick, the interior essentially empty and open along one side. |
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contorted 1 |
= convolute |
aestivation |
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Imbricate and whorled, each member in turn overlapped by that to one side and overlapping that to the other, the whole tightly rolled and appearing as though twisted. |
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symmetric(al) 1 |
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plane shape |
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Divisible into essentially equal halves along one or more lines or planes. |
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petiolar |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the petioles. |
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capitate 3 |
= capitiform, head-shaped |
solid shape |
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Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. |
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fragrant |
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odor |
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Sweet or otherwise pleasant. |
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attenuate 2 |
= tapered |
solid shape |
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Gradually diminishing in breadth or diameter from one end to the other. |
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viscid 2 |
< glutinous |
texture |
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Sticky. |
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fan-shaped |
= flabellate, 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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terminal |
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insertion |
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Apical and with the same developmental axis as the whole, of which it is the distalmost portion or appendage. |
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ciliate |
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margin |
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Having fine, hair-like trichomes (cilia) oriented in the general plane of the structure. |
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placentiform |
= placenta-shaped |
solid shape |
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Thickly disciform (discoid); like the generalized shape of a human placenta. |
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mitre-shaped |
= mitriform |
solid shape |
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Broadest and transversely round to oval proximally, tapering bilaterally above the middle to a central peak; like a peaked hat or cap. |
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intruded |
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placentation |
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Upon partial septa excrescent from the wall of a compound, unilocular ovary. |
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stellate 3 |
= star-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a distal aspect like the stylized shape of a star; stipitate or sessile with elongate branches or appendages radiating widely in three dimensions from a common point at the apex of the proximal axis or, when sessile, upon the bearing surface. |
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raphides sing. raphis |
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STRUCTURE |
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Needle-like crystals of calcium oxalate contained within the cells of some plants; esp. in Araceae. |
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zig-zag |
= flexuous |
course |
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Having alternating angular bends to either side, more or less straight between the bends. |
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bossed |
= umbonate |
solid shape |
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Having an umbo. |
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macula pl. maculae |
= blotch, spot |
FEATURE |
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An area that differs in color from the rest of a structure's surface, usually due to differing coloration. See also eyespot. |
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hood-shaped |
= cucullate, cuculliform |
solid shape |
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Convex or compressed-convex overall with a distal peak or ridge, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a hood or cowl. See also helmet-shaped (galeate, galeiform), which overlaps conceptually. |
