tumid |
= swollen, turgid |
solid shape |
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Engorged in appearance, convex overall with the surface appearing taut , as though from internal pressure. See also inflated, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
congested |
= compact, crowded |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed very near to one another. |
spongy |
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texture |
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Soft, light, discontinuous but cohesive, and somewhat resilient. |
hydathode |
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STRUCTURE |
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A multicellular, anatomically distinctive structure located within a leaf at its periphery, its cells surrounding a central canal that opens to the exterior, through which water is actively discharged under humid conditions that impede the rate of transpiration; this liquid discharge is termed guttation. |
flexuous var. flexuose |
= zig-zag |
course |
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Having alternating angular bends to either side, more or less straight between the bends. |
semiterete |
= half-terete |
solid shape |
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Terete but flattened on one side. |
one-sided 2 |
= unilateral |
orientation |
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Disposed or directed toward one side only. |
incurved |
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orientation |
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Curving adaxially. See also decurved. |
development |
= ontogeny |
CHARACTER |
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Mode or pattern of growth and differentiation. |
scabrous 1 |
= rough |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing coarse, stiff, ascending trichomes and markedly rough to the touch. |
elastic |
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texture |
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Resiliently deformable with no loss of structural integrity. |
flagellum pl. flagella |
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STRUCTURE |
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A very slender whip-like structure that extends from the main body of an antherozoid and, by active undulation, propels the cell through a liquid medium. |
lip |
= labium; > labellum |
STRUCTURE |
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Any substructure that resembles a lip, especially a portion of a perianth, calyx or corolla. |
worm-shaped |
= vermiculate |
solid shape |
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Basically cylindric, elongate, and slender with bluntly rounded ends, variously curved over its length. |
bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
apex |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
dodeca… |
= twelve-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by twelve entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in dodecandrous, dodecalocular, dodecastylous. |
glabrescent |
= balding |
pubescence |
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Becoming glabrous (bald, psilate) with age. |
spatulate var. spathulate |
= spatula-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate, broadest near a rounded apex, gradually attenuate to a narrower base; like the outline of the broad face of a spatula blade. |
hexa… |
= six-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by six entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in hexandrous, hexacarpellate, hexacolporate. |
compound |
= composite |
architecture |
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Unitary as a whole but comprising two or more equivalent substructural entities, these topologically distinct (e.g., leaflets in a compound leaf) or not (e.g., carpels in a compound pistil). |
triple-… |
= thrice-…, tri-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of three hierarchical orders of the type of entity or pattern denoted by the term's stem; as in triple-palmate. See also three-…. |
strict |
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course |
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Lacking any curve or bend. |
ceraceous 1 |
= cereous, waxen, waxy; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
fertile frond |
< spore leaf, sporophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A frond that bears sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also sterile frond (trophophyll). |
dimidiate |
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solid shape |
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Halved, figuratively; bilaterally asymmetric, nearly or wholly lacking one side as implicitly compared with some corresponding bilaterally symmetric structure, real or imagined. |