resinous 1 |
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coating |
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Of liquid or hardened resin. |
dissepiment |
< septum; > replum |
STRUCTURE |
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A wall or partition between adjacent locules of an ovary or fruit. |
acuminate |
= concave-tapered |
apex |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter to a slender tip, the sides longitudinally concave. Corresponds with attenuate for base shape. |
size |
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Nature as to absolute or comparative extent in any one dimension or in area or volume. |
haustorium pl. haustoria |
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STRUCTURE |
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An absorbing and anchoring organ, often root-like, excrescent from a vegetative part of a parasitic or hemiparasitic plant, by which the plant communicates intimately with and derives sustenance and support from its host plant, into whose tissues the haustorium intrudes. |
piliferous |
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apex |
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Having a distinct, fine, weak, hair-like portion or protrusion. |
lanuginose |
< cottony |
pubescence |
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Bearing relatively long and fine, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
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). |
throat 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The far distal portion of a perianth, calyx, or corolla tube, or of a leaf sheath, surrounding the orifice of the tube or sheath, sometimes constricted relative to the diameter of the main body of the tube or sheath; except in disc florets of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
cristate |
= crested |
apex |
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Having a laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched protrusion. |
female cone |
= macrostrobilus (not recommended), megastrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A cone (strobilus) whose fertile organs are all megasporophylls. |
cartilage-like |
= cartilaginous |
texture |
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Firm, dense, tough, somewhat pliable, and resilient, like human cartilage. |
scabridous |
= rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
woolly |
> lanate |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing relatively long, moderately stout, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
oval |
= elliptic(al) |
plane shape |
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Elongate, widest at the middle, and symmetrically convex-attenuate to rounded ends. See also oblong. |
epidermis pl. epidermides, epidermises |
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STRUCTURE |
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The anatomically distinct, outermost, living tissue that encloses and protects the other tissues of a plant organ or part, usually overlaid by an exuded waxy cuticle; resulting from primary growth, disrupted and shed as a consequence of secondary growth if that occurs; consisting mainly of cells not further specialized, otherwise including various types of more specialized cells associated with trichomes and stomates. |
immersed |
< sunken |
prominence |
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Deeply sunken. |
prolate |
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solid shape |
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Symmetrically elongate parallel to the developmental or polar axis. |
bifacial |
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architecture |
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Having two opposite broad surfaces that differ distinctly in appearance. |
macrosporangium pl. macrosporangia (not recommended) |
= megasporangium |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporangium that produces megaspores. |
fringed |
= fimbriate |
margin |
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Regularly divided into slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments, or having protrusions that give the appearance of such division. See also fine-fringed (fimbrillate). |
abaxial |
= dorsal (not recommended) |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) away from the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
pericarp |
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STRUCTURE |
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The portion of a fruit wall that is derived from the ovary wall; consisting of three more or less distinct tissue layers (exocarp or epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp) that may or may not differ greatly in structure and/or function; the wall of a fruit, excluding any tissues of extra-ovarian (accessory) origin. |
knot-shaped |
= gongylodate, gongyloid, knob-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
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Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
coccus pl. cocci |
= mericarp |
STRUCTURE |
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One of the segments of a dehisced schizocarp; usually one-seeded and itself indehiscent. |