crest |
= crista |
STRUCTURE |
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A laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched, apical protrusion. |
winged 1 |
= alate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively thin protrusions or appendages that resemble wings. |
operculate |
= lidded |
architecture |
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Having an operculum (lid). |
hard-coated |
= corticate |
texture |
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Having a hard exterior layer and a distinct, softer interior. |
squamiform |
= scale-like |
solid shape |
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Isodiametric to elongate in broad outline, relatively very thin, and planate to moderately concave-convex. |
hypogynium pl. hypogynia |
= gynophore; < stalk, stipe (broad sense, not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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The basal portion of an ovary when constricted and stalk-like above the level of perianth insertion, bearing the main body of the pistil at its summit; in Cyperaceae. |
prickle |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unvascularized spine-like enation originating in the epidermis, cortex, or mesophyll of any shoot part. See also spine, thorn. |
blotched |
= maculate, spotted |
coloration |
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Having one or more areas that differ in color from the rest of the surface. See also eyespotted. |
climbing root |
< aerial root |
STRUCTURE |
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An aerial, usually adventitious root that, by some means, serves to anchor a climbing shoot portion to the structure(s) that support(s) it above ground level. |
longitudinal 2 |
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orientation |
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Parallel to the long axis of the context of reference. |
twice-… |
= bi…, double-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of two hierarchical orders of the type of entity or pattern denoted by the term's stem; as in twice-crenate, twice-palmate. See also two-… (bi…, di…). |
fossulate |
= colpate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (fossulae). |
callus |
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FEATURE |
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A small, relatively hard covering, outgrowth, or swelling of tissue; esp. in axes of grass (Poaceae) inflorescences just distal to points of eventual disarticulation. |
keeled |
= carinate |
solid shape |
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Having an elongate median longitudinal ridge that is basically triangular in transverse section, resembling the keel of a boat; esp. a leaf blade or sheath, glume, lemma, palea, sepal or petal. |
ramal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stem branches. |
exalate 1 |
= wingless |
architecture |
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Lacking elongate, relatively thin protrusions or appendages that resemble wings. |
corona pl. coronae, coronas |
> gynostegium |
STRUCTURE |
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A crown-like set of connate or distinct appendages or enations borne upon a corolla or androecium or between them. |
mottled |
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coloration |
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Having one or more indistinctly delineated, irregularly shaped, areas of varying size and contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
grooved |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more relatively narrow and shallow longitudinal depressions (grooves). |
spinulose |
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architecture |
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Finely spinose. |
architecture |
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CHARACTER |
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Composite structural configuration as to type, orientation, symmetry, insertion, position, fusion, presence, number, relative size, shape, texture, differentiation, and/or derivation of components and features. Overlaps conceptually with habit. |
pluri… |
= many-…, multi…, poly… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by a relatively large number of entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in plurilocular, pluriseriate. See also oligo… (few-…). |
tartar-like |
= tartareous |
relief |
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Rough and crumbling spontaneously, becoming erose. |
chewed |
= ruminate |
relief |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
trophophyll |
= sterile frond |
STRUCTURE |
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A frond that does not bear sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also fertile frond. |