multicipital |
= many-stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
annual 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of annual duration. |
heterotrophic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Dependent upon other organisms for some or all of its essential nourishment, assimilating such materials either directly from the other organisms, living or dead, or from their products. |
frutescent |
< shrubby; >< bushy |
habit |
plant |
Developing the character of a frutex (shrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
eradicate |
= rootless |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking a root. |
rooted |
= radicate |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
subshrub |
= suffrutex, undershrub |
nominative |
plant |
Of shrub-like form but with only the base woody, bearing herbaceous branches that die back at the end of each growing season. See also bush, shrub (frutex), tree, woody clump. |
prop-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and buttressed by prop roots. |
frutex pl. frutices |
= shrub; > bush |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial, woody, relatively short, with a single main stem that is not distinctly columnar and branches from or above ground level, the branches often crowded. See also suffrutex (subshrub, undershrub), tree, woody clump. |
runnering |
= sarmentose, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing runners (stolons), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
stilt-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and partly supported by stilt roots. |
subshrubby |
> suffrutescent, suffruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a subshrub (undershrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, woody-clumping. |
fruticose |
< shrubby; >< bushy |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a frutex (shrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, frutescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
tuberous 1 |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing tubers. |
rootless |
= eradicate |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking a root. |
ephemeral |
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duration |
plant |
Annual with a very short life span; germinating, growing, reproducing, and dying within a brief period of favorable conditions, the entire cycle being completed within a few weeks. |
autotrophic |
|
nutrition |
plant |
Independent of other organisms for its nourishment, itself synthesizing all essential substances not directly available from the non-living environment. |
biennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of biennial duration. |
megaphyllous |
= macrophyllous (not recommended) |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing megaphylls. |
fibrous-rooted |
< diffuse-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Diffuse-rooted with fibrous roots. See also taprooted. |
monocarpic |
= hapaxanthic |
reproduction |
plant |
Normally reproducing sexually only once, then promptly senescent. |
liana |
< vine |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial with elongate ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
aquatic |
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habit |
plant |
Growing in water. |
basicauliramous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having the stem(s) branching at or near the base. See also basiramous. |
dwarfed |
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size |
plant |
Strongly reduced; unusually or unexpectedly very small throughout. |