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sarcous |
= carnose, fleshy |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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operculum pl. opercula |
= lid |
STRUCTURE |
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A distal, cover-like portion of a structure whose main body is otherwise closed, transversely discontinuous with the main body around most of the circumference, or becoming partially or wholly separate by transverse dehiscence; as of an ascidium (pitcher), pollen grain, pyxis, or sporangium (spore case). |
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squamose |
= lepidote, squamate; < scaly |
pubescence |
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Bearing squamae (lepides). See also squamellose. |
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denticulate |
= small-toothed |
margin |
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Finely dentate (toothed). See also crenate (scalloped), crenulate (small-scalloped), serrate (sawtoothed), serrulate (small-sawtoothed). |
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prickly |
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architecture |
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Bearing prickles. |
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loose 1 |
= lax |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed distant from one another. |
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twig |
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STRUCTURE |
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The terminal portion of an ultimate branch of a woody stem, representing the most recent increment of growth and bearing or having borne the current or most recent increment of leaves. See also branchlet. |
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cladophyll |
= cladode, phylloclade |
STRUCTURE |
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A stem segment that functions as a leaf; often more or less compressed. |
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…fossulate |
= …colpate, …furrowed, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of fossulae indicated by the prefix; as in unifossulate, multifossulate, 5-fossulate. |
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seta 1 pl. setae |
= arista, awn, bristle |
STRUCTURE |
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A slender, more or less straight and stiff, fine-pointed, terminal or subterminal appendage or prolongation, sometimes a continuation of the bearing structure's central primary vein, as on a glume, lemma, or palea in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
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convolute 3 |
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vernation |
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Each rolled laterally and wholly surrounded by and/or surrounding the one(s) next adjacent. |
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basifixed |
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fixation |
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Attached at its base. |
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kidney-shaped 1 |
= reniform |
plane shape |
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Broadly elongate and arcuate, each end bluntly rounded; like the generalized outline of the broad face of a human kidney. |
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dyad |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pair of coherent pollen grains shed as a unit. |
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ramentaceous |
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pubescence |
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Of small, fragile, scarious, planate trichomes. |
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mound-shaped |
= cushion-shaped, pulvinate, pulviniform |
solid shape |
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Essentially round in transverse section, much broader than long or high, with a convex distal face that intersects either a more or less plane proximal face or, when the structure is sessile, its bearing surface. |
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…grooved |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …furrowed, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of grooves indicated by the prefix; as in three-grooved, 5-grooved. |
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spinulose |
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margin |
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Finely spinose. |
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cylindric(al) |
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solid shape |
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Solid and transversely round with a more or less uniform diameter, the ends blunt. |
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pneumatophore |
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STRUCTURE |
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A structurally and functionally specialized root serving as an aboveground aerating organ; found in some woody taxa of wet habitats, notably some mangroves. |
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tartareous |
= tartar-like |
relief |
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Rough and crumbling spontaneously, becoming erose. |
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liguliform |
= lorate, strap-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate and relatively thin with the opposite faces more or less plane and moderately narrow, their edges more or less straight and parallel over most of their length; resembling a strap. |
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trowel-shaped |
= trullate, trulliform |
plane shape |
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Broadest below the middle, more or less straightly attenuate to either end, the sides angled at the level of greatest width; like the blade of a mason's trowel. See also obtrullate, obtrulliform. |
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round |
= orbiculate, orbicular misapplied |
plane shape |
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Circular. |
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obtuse 2 |
= blunt |
base |
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Bluntly angular; having an angular proximal portion whose generalized sides intersect at an angle of 90° or more. |
