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shining |
= glossy, laevigate, lustrous, polished, shiny |
reflectance |
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Uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles. |
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glandular 1 |
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architecture |
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Having one or more glands. |
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hooded |
= cucullate |
architecture |
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Bearing, incorporating, or surmounted by a hood-shaped structure. |
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surficial |
= superficial |
insertion |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
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truncate 1 |
= abrupt |
apex |
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Having a distal boundary that is generally straight or plane and approximately perpendicular to the central axis. |
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warty |
= tuberculate, tuberculose, verrucose |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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androecium pl. androecia |
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STRUCTURE |
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The stamen(s), staminode(s), if any, and their ontogenetically associated structure(s), if any, of a single flower, taken collectively. |
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banner |
= standard, vexillum |
STRUCTURE |
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The relatively large, erect adaxial (upper) petal in a papilionaceous corolla. |
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microspore |
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STRUCTURE |
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A male spore; a spore of the smaller of the two types produced by the sporophytes of a heterosporous taxon; produced in a microsporangium; giving rise upon germination to a microgametophyte. |
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calyx pl. calyces |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, the sepals of a flower, whether distinct or connate; the outer or proximal envelope of a differentiated perianth, whether the other envelope (corolla) is also actually present or is deemed to be secondarily absent due to evolutionary reduction. |
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oily 1 |
= greasy, oleaginous, unctuous |
coating |
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Of a grease- or oil-like film. |
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crusty |
= crustaceous |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
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pruinose |
> caesious, glaucescent, glaucous; < ceraceous, cereous, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Covered with a thin, opaque deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. |
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dorsiventral |
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architecture |
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Having structurally distinct abaxial (dorsal) and adaxial (ventral) portions or aspects. |
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ridge |
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FEATURE |
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A very narrow, elongate, relatively low protrusion; esp. on fruits in Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). |
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falcate 1 |
= sickle-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate and laterally arcuate with the lateral edges more or less concentric, the degree of curvature decreasing distally or not; like the outline of the face of a sickle blade. |
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furcate |
= forked; > bifurcate |
plane shape |
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Having two or more terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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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. |
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sucker |
> turion |
STRUCTURE |
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A shoot arising adventitiously from a root or stem below or at ground level. |
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involute 2 |
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vernation |
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Each rolled adaxially from the lateral margins. |
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trabeculate |
< septate |
architecture |
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Having one or more trabeculae. |
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ventrifixed |
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fixation |
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Attached on the adaxial side well above the base. |
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ala 1 pl. alae |
= wing |
STRUCTURE |
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Any elongate, relatively thin protrusion or appendage. |
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massula pl. massulae |
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STRUCTURE |
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A body of coherent pollen grains, dispersed as a unit; esp. in Asclepiadaceae, Orchidaceae. |
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bulbel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A comparatively small bulb branching laterally from a larger, currently primary one. |
