apical |
< distal |
position |
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At or very near the developmental end or tip (apex) of a structure. |
lacrimiform |
= teardrop-shaped |
solid shape |
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Transversely round and broadest just below the middle, broadly rounded to the base and acutely attenuate to the apex. |
face |
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FEATURE |
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A relatively large, flat or shallowly curved portion of the external surface of a three-dimensional structure, bounded by more or less distinct topological discontinuities. |
saccate 2 |
= bag-shaped, pouch-shaped, sack-shaped |
solid shape |
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Irregularly obovoid with an exterior aspect intermediate between inflated and flaccid; like a closed pouch or bag. |
naked 1 |
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architecture |
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Lacking a covering that might have been expected. |
hair-like |
= capillary, capillate |
solid shape |
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Finely filiform; resembling a hair. |
accessory cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the cytologically distinctive epidermal cells that are sometimes present in a stomate and that surround and are regularly oriented in relation to the guard cells. |
spot |
= blotch, macula |
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. |
corniculate |
= horned |
apex |
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Bearing one or more cornicula (horns). |
pore |
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FEATURE |
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A small aperture or opening in a wall or covering that allows transport between interior and exterior. |
lobed |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, parted, partite, segmented |
plane shape |
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Having one or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that is/are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that is/are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
tubular |
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solid shape |
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Cylindric or attenuate-cylindric overall and with a hollow interior open at one or both ends. |
foliar |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the leaves. |
channel |
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FEATURE |
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A longitudinal, transversely rounded depression; esp. along the adaxial surface of a petiole or petiolule. |
cap cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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The single cell, or one of the several cells, forming the uppermost (distal) portion of an antheridial wall. |
pedicel |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk, when present, of a single flower, except when the flower is solitary and deemed to represent an evolutionarily reduced compound inflorescence borne directly upon a peduncle. |
hypanthium 2 (strict sense) pl. hypanthia |
= floral cup (strict sense) |
STRUCTURE |
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A marginal protrusion from or enlargement of the receptacle (torus) of a flower, encircling and wholly, partly or not at all adnate to the gynoecium, bearing the perianth and androecium. |
strophiole |
= caruncle |
STRUCTURE |
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An outgrowth from the seed coat (testa) around or near the hilum and micropyle, or from the raphe. |
angular |
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plane shape |
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Having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles. |
…verticillate |
= …cyclic, …seriate, …whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed in the number of verticils (cycles, series, whorls) indicated by the prefix; as in five-whorled, 3-whorled. |
gongylodate |
= gongyloid, knob-shaped, knot-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
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Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
spicy |
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odor |
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Pleasantly pungent, reminiscent of spices. |
cone-shaped |
= conic(al) |
apex |
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Transversely round, essentially triangular in median longitudinal section, and broadest proximally. See also obconic(al). |
platter-shaped |
= scutellate, scutelliform |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oval faces, shallowly concave-convex; like a serving platter. See also buckler-shaped (scutate, scutiform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
dorsal (not recommended) |
= abaxial |
insertion |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) away from 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. |