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corky |
= suberous |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
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plumose |
= feather-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a slender central axis bearing two opposite ranks of numerous, closely proximate, ascending, very slender branches or appendages; resembling the generalized form of a feather. |
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epicalyx pl. epicalyces |
= calyculus |
STRUCTURE |
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A whorl of bracts immediately subtending (beneath or outside) a calyx. |
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scabrous 2 |
= rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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flexuose |
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course |
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See flexuous. |
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small-scalloped |
= crenulate |
margin |
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Finely scalloped (crenate). See also sawtoothed (serrate), small-sawtoothed (serrulate), small-toothed (denticulate), toothed (dentate). |
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gummy |
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texture |
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Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
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stoma 2 (strict sense) pl. stomata |
= stomatal pore |
FEATURE |
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The aperture between and regulated by the two guard cells of a stomate (stomatal apparatus). |
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tartareous |
= tartar-like |
relief |
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Rough and crumbling spontaneously, becoming erose. |
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xylem |
= wood |
STRUCTURE |
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The water-conducting and usually main supporting tissue of a plant or portion thereof, characterized by the presence of tracheary elements (tracheids and sometimes vessel elements); the lignified tissue of a plant or component structure, composed almost entirely of secondary tissue, i.e., that derived by secondary or lateral growth from a cambium in structures a season or more old. See also sapwood, heartwood. |
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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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multiciliate |
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architecture |
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Having several to many cilia. |
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carpophore 3 |
= columella; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk supporting a mericarp after dehiscence of a schizocarpic fruit, the central axis of the fruit having split longitudinally to yield two or four such stalks; composed of receptacular and (primarily) gynoecial tissues; esp. in Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). |
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paired |
= conjugate, geminate |
arrangement |
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Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. |
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conduplicate 2 |
= duplicate |
vernation |
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Each leaf folded sharply inward along its longitudinal axis, the adaxial surfaces of each side facing one another. |
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pistillodium pl. pistillodia |
= pistillode |
STRUCTURE |
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Any sterile structure deemed to represent a modified pistil, homology being inferred on the basis of structural similarity, ontogeny, and/or position; sometimes nectariferous, sometimes connate with others or adnate to other floral structures. |
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pyramidal |
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solid shape |
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Transversely triangular or polygonal, broadest at the base and regularly attenuate to an angular apex, all faces essentially plane. |
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elater 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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An elongate cell with a helical, hygroscopic thickening in its wall, contained within a sporangium, expanding and contracting with changes in humidity and aiding dispersal of the spores; esp. in Hepaticae. |
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runcinate |
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plane shape |
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Basically obovate with a series of retrorse, acute lobes on either side, these diminishing in size toward the base. |
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filiform |
= thread-like |
solid shape |
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Elongate and very slender, basically round in transverse section and of more or less uniform diameter, variously curved over its length or not. See also capillary (capillate, hair-like). |
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showy |
< conspicuous |
manifestation |
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Prominently evident and attractive due to size, shape and/or coloration. |
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glittering |
= splendent |
reflectance |
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Interruptedly glossy (laevigate, lustrous, polished, shining, shiny, and thus sparkling when viewed from changing angles. |
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standard |
= banner, vexillum |
STRUCTURE |
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The relatively large, erect adaxial (upper) petal in a papilionaceous corolla. |
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horn-shaped |
= corniform |
solid shape |
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Straight or curved and slenderly conic or conoidal, like an animal horn. |
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sword-shaped 2 |
= ensiform |
solid shape |
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Elongate and moderately slender, strongly compressed, the opposite faces plane, parallel, broadest at the base and gradually attenuate to a short, more strongly attenuate, acute apex; like a broadsword blade. |
