spicy |
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odor |
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Pleasantly pungent, reminiscent of spices. |
cup-shaped |
= calyciform, cupulate |
solid shape |
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Truncate-globose with the distal margin more or less entire; like the bowl of a cup. |
anticlinal |
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orientation |
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Perpendicular to some given plane of reference; applied especially to the plane of cell division when it is oriented at right angles to the generalized plane of the structural surface. |
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. |
erose 2 |
= eroded |
relief |
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Appearing as if chewed or gnawed; having very irregular localized deviations from its generalized line. |
rosette |
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STRUCTURE |
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A set of leaves that are strongly congested and disposed in radial symmetry about the main stem at or very near its base, seeming to arise at the same level and often overlapping laterally; esp. the overwintering leaves of perennial herbs. |
oblong 2 |
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solid shape |
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Compressed-ellipsoid, the sides approximately parallel from near one end to near the other. See also ellipsoid(al). |
hippocrepiform |
= horseshoe-shaped |
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. |
stipe 2 (broad sense, not recommended) |
< stalk; > gynophore, hypogynium, peduncle, petiole |
STRUCTURE |
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A stalk of or supporting a frond, inflorescence, or gynoecium. |
bald |
= glabrous, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
pulverulent |
= granuliferous, powdery |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of fine, dry particles. See also lentiginous (dusty, lentiginose), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
megasporangium pl. megasporangia |
= macrosporangium (not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporangium that produces megaspores. |
seed leaf |
= cotyledon |
STRUCTURE |
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Any of the one or more primary foliar structures of an embryonic seed plant, proximal to all succeeding leaf primordia; sometimes serving as a storage organ for food reserves in the seed, as in peas and beans. |
papillose |
= papillate |
relief |
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Having small, conoidal protrusions overall; appearing pimply. |
androgynophore |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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A stalk that rises above the level of perianth insertion and bears the free portions of both androecium and gynoecium from its summit; as in Passifloraceae. |
suprabasal |
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insertion |
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Just above the base of the structure in point. |
epibracteal |
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position |
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Upon the bracts, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
revolute 2 |
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vernation |
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Each rolled abaxially inward from the lateral margins. |
node |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the evident sectors of a stem that occur sequentially along its length and from which leaves (megaphylls) and lateral branches arise exogenously. The anatomy of nodes differs from, but is not abruptly distinct longitudinally from, that of the intervening sectors (internodes), with which it is smoothly confluent and from which is distinguished by the lateral transit and egress of vascular traces interconnecting the stem and the leaves and branches that it bears. |
xylary |
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position |
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Within or otherwise directly associated with the wood. |
smooth 1 |
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relief |
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Even or unrelieved overall. Strictly applied, this term refers only to the surface proper; however, it is often used to mean glabrous as well. |
heart-shaped 3 |
= cordiform |
solid shape |
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Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. |
pinnule |
< leaflet |
STRUCTURE |
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A second- or higher-order division or leaflet of a pinnate frond; a division of a pinna; in Polypodiophyta. |
lax |
= loose |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed distant from one another. |
bisexual |
= hermaphroditic |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |