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depressed |
< flattened |
solid shape |
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Flattened distally, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, as though pressed from the top, the external surface otherwise basically convex. Often used in combination with some other term that describes the overall shape exclusive of ("before") flattening, e.g., depressed-globose. See also compressed (complanate), obcompressed. |
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ensate |
= sword-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate and moderately slender, broadest at the base and gradually attenuate to a short, more strongly attenuate, acute apex; like the outline of the lateral face of a broadsword blade. |
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sawtooth |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of a series of regularly spaced, angular, marginal convexities oriented at an acute angle to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also sawtoothlet, scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth, toothlet. |
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flanged |
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solid shape |
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Having a relatively broad circumferential rim or ridge that protrudes laterally. |
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six-… |
= hexa… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by six entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in six-angled, six-sepaled, six-styled. |
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granulose |
= granular, granulate |
texture |
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Composed of grain-like particles; loose, dry, and coarsely particulate. |
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stipe 1 |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, slender connection between a pollinium caudicle and a viscidium; in Orchidaceae. |
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taeniate |
= tapeworm-shaped |
solid shape |
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Slender, elongate, basically cylindric or compressed-cylindric with shallow, narrow, more or less regular constrictions along its length, the whole apparently segmented and straight or variously curved. |
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lanuginose |
< cottony |
pubescence |
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Bearing relatively long and fine, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
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woody |
= ligneous |
texture |
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Of or resembling wood (xylem). |
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beak 2 |
= rostrum |
STRUCTURE |
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The inner, horn-like segment of a coronal lobe; esp. in Asclepiadaceae. |
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mound-shaped |
= cushion-shaped, pulvinate, pulviniform |
solid shape |
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Essentially round in transverse section, much broader than long or high, with a convex distal face that intersects either a more or less plane proximal face or, when the structure is sessile, its bearing surface. |
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carinate |
= keeled |
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. |
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ovary |
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STRUCTURE |
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The proximal portion of a pistil (either simple or compound) within which the ovules are borne; usually of somewhat greater diameter and/or volume than the remainder of the pistil. |
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beaked |
= rostrate |
apex |
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Terminating in a relatively long, tapering, more or less rigid point. See also small-beaked (rostellate). |
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mucilage |
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substance |
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A slimy exudate. |
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cariniform |
= keel-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate, basically triangular in transverse section, tapering at one or both ends, the outer edge thus somewhat arcuate, the whole resembling the keel of a boat. |
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ovate |
= egg-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate and wholly convex, widest near a bluntly rounded base and attenuate to a narrower rounded apex; like the lateral outline of a fowl egg. See also obovate. |
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composite |
= compound |
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). |
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pinnatifid |
> pinnatisect; < pinnate |
solid shape |
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Pinnately divided. |
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puncticulate |
= small-dotted |
coloration |
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Finely punctate (dotted). |
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echinate |
= spinose, spiny |
architecture |
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Bearing spines. |
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rough 2 |
= scabrate, scabrid, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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fibrous root |
< diffuse root |
STRUCTURE |
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A diffuse root that includes a significant component of woody or sclerotic strands and is consequently tough and often wiry. |
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sheath (leaf) |
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STRUCTURE |
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The lower (basal or proximal), fundamentally laminar but strongly involute portion of one of the non-petiolate leaves characteristic of most monocotyledons (Liliidae); distinct from the leaf blade, which, when present, is borne distally upon it; analogous, though not necessarily homologous, with a petiole; usually more or less completely enclosing a portion of the stem above the node from which the leaf is borne. |
