lentiginose |
= dusty, lentiginous |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of minute, dry, macroscopically indistinguishable particles. See also pulverulent (granuliferous, powdery), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
plane shape |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
ventral (not recommended) |
= adaxial |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) toward the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
strigillose |
= strigulose |
pubescence |
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Finely strigose. |
endosperm |
= albumen |
STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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A genetically triploid (3n chromosomes) nutritive tissue in a seed; containing stored carbohydrate and/or oil utilized by the embryo prior to and especially upon germination; derived from fusion of the two polar nuclei (n + n chromosomes) of the embryo sac with a sperm nucleus from the pollen tube (n chromosomes). See also perisperm. |
glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
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Sticky or slimy. |
proximal |
> basal |
insertion |
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Upon or associated with the portion of a structure closest to its developmental origin. |
interpetiolar |
< nodal |
position |
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Upon the stem between the bases of opposite leaves. |
sulcus pl. sulci |
= colpus, fossula, furrow, groove, vallecula |
FEATURE |
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An elongate depression that is relatively shallow and narrow. |
barb 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A trichome terminated by one or two small, relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely reflexed appendages. |
mammose |
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solid shape |
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Having mammae. |
opposite 2 |
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arrangement |
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Having the members of each whorl inserted directly above and/or below those of the next adjacent whorl(s). See also antipetalous, antisepalous. |
fine-fringed |
= fimbrillate |
margin |
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Finely fringed (fimbriate). |
lanciform |
= lancehead-shaped, lanceoloid |
solid shape |
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Considerably longer than broad, compressed or not, broadest near the base and somewhat concavely attenuate to the apex, the attenuation in all median longitudinal planes or else largely confined to one, depending upon the extent of compression, if any. See also oblanciform (oblanceoloid). |
putrid |
= fetid |
odor |
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Stinking like rotting flesh. |
stiff |
= rigent, rigid |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
megaspore |
= macrospore (not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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A female spore; a spore of the larger of two types produced by the sporophytes of a heterosporous taxon; produced in a megasporangium; giving rise upon germination to a megagametophyte. |
pitcher-blade |
= ascidium, pitcher |
STRUCTURE |
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A pitcher-shaped (ascidiform) leaf blade, sometimes lidded (operculate), usually carnivorous; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
hastula pl. hastulae, hastulas |
= ligule misapplied |
STRUCTURE |
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An outgrowth or enation from the petiole apex at its junction with the adaxial surface of a palmate leaf blade; often woody in texture; variously shaped, its adaxial outline usually resembling an inverted V or U, or a semicircle with the opening proximal; esp. in Arecaceae (Palmae). |
ear-shaped |
= auriform |
solid shape |
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Resembling a mammalian outer ear. |
splendent |
= glittering |
reflectance |
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Interruptedly glossy (laevigate, lustrous, polished, shining, shiny) and thus sparkling when viewed from changing angles. |
umbo pl. umbines, umbos |
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FEATURE |
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A relatively small, rounded or conical, central protrusion upon an essentially round, broad face. |
position |
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CHARACTER |
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Location or disposition with reference to some dissimilar structure(s) or larger context. The lexicons relating to position and insertion overlap to a great degree, since these two morphological concepts are often inseparable in practice. Also overlaps conceptually with arrangement, habit, orientation, and shape. |
induplicate |
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aestivation |
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Basically valvate but with each member involute, the lateral abaxial surfaces of adjacent members contiguous. |
commissure |
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FEATURE |
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Precisely, the joint or common boundary between the facing surfaces of two coherent or mutually appressed structures such as mericarps or stigmas, but traditionally (though imprecisely) applied to such a facing surface itself. |