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mealy 1 |
= farinaceous; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of or bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. |
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flabelliform |
= fan-shaped, flabellate |
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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scutelliform |
= platter-shaped, scutellate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oval faces, shallowly concave-convex; like a serving platter. See also scutate (buckler-shaped, scutiform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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attenuate 1 |
= concave-tapered |
base |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter toward the proximal end, the sides longitudinally concave. Corresponds with acuminate for apex shape. |
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eglandular |
= glandless |
architecture |
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Lacking glands. |
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inframedial |
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position |
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Slightly below the middle of the structure in point. |
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superficial |
= surficial |
insertion |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
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arcuate 2 |
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plane shape |
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Elongate and more or less regularly curved from one end to the other, one side convex, the opposite concave. |
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resinous 1 |
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coating |
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Of liquid or hardened resin. |
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corona pl. coronae, coronas |
> gynostegium |
STRUCTURE |
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A crown-like set of connate or distinct appendages or enations borne upon a corolla or androecium or between them. |
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size |
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CHARACTER |
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Nature as to absolute or comparative extent in any one dimension or in area or volume. |
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haustorium pl. haustoria |
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STRUCTURE |
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An absorbing and anchoring organ, often root-like, excrescent from a vegetative part of a parasitic or hemiparasitic plant, by which the plant communicates intimately with and derives sustenance and support from its host plant, into whose tissues the haustorium intrudes. |
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piliferous |
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apex |
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Having a distinct, fine, weak, hair-like portion or protrusion. |
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lanuginose |
< cottony |
pubescence |
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Bearing relatively long and fine, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
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throat 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The far distal portion of a perianth, calyx, or corolla tube, or of a leaf sheath, surrounding the orifice of the tube or sheath, sometimes constricted relative to the diameter of the main body of the tube or sheath; except in disc florets of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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chewed |
= ruminate |
relief |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
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female cone |
= macrostrobilus (not recommended), megastrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A cone (strobilus) whose fertile organs are all megasporophylls. |
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scabridous |
= rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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woolly |
> lanate |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing relatively long, moderately stout, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
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decompound |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more orders of equivalent substructural entities; multiply compound. |
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oval |
= elliptic(al) |
plane shape |
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Elongate, widest at the middle, and symmetrically convex-attenuate to rounded ends. See also oblong. |
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immersed |
< sunken |
prominence |
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Deeply sunken. |
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prolate |
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solid shape |
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Symmetrically elongate parallel to the developmental or polar axis. |
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macrosporangium pl. macrosporangia (not recommended) |
= megasporangium |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporangium that produces megaspores. |
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fringed |
= fimbriate |
margin |
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Regularly divided into slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments, or having protrusions that give the appearance of such division. See also fine-fringed (fimbrillate). |
