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oily 1 |
= greasy, oleaginous, unctuous |
coating |
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Of a grease- or oil-like film. |
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horny |
= corneous |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
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strict |
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course |
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Lacking any curve or bend. |
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androgynophore |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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A stalk that rises above the level of perianth insertion and bears the free portions of both androecium and gynoecium from its summit; as in Passifloraceae. |
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dorsifixed |
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fixation |
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Attached on the abaxial side well above the base. |
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midrib |
= midnerve, midvein; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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caudate 2 |
= tailed |
base |
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With one or more relatively slender, retrorse basal enations or appendages. |
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ventricose |
= bellied |
solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the middle, as though with a belly. |
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spermatozoid |
= antherozoid; < sperm |
STRUCTURE |
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A motile male gamete, produced within an antheridium. |
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cloying |
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odor |
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Sickeningly sweet. |
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placentiform |
= placenta-shaped |
solid shape |
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Thickly disciform (discoid); like the generalized shape of a human placenta. |
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iridescent |
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coloration |
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Reflecting a pattern colors from throughout the visible spectrum, the pattern changing with the angle of view. |
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synangium pl. synangia |
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STRUCTURE |
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A compound sporangium; an aggregation of coherent sporangia, the whole multilocular. |
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blade |
= lamina |
STRUCTURE |
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The expanded, more or less planate, distal portion, when present, of a leaf, leaflet or bract. |
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oblanceoloid |
= oblanciform |
solid shape |
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Inversely lanceoloid (lancehead-shaped, lanciform). |
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…stichous |
= …ranked |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in the number of distinct ranks indicated by the prefix; as in distichous, polystichous, tristichous. |
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disc 1 var. disk |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any distinct, annular to discoid structure produced from or borne upon a floral receptacle between or basal to any of the sets of floral organs; usually fleshy, often nectariferous. |
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corrugate 1 |
= crumpled |
aestivation |
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Having members tightly and irregularly folded, the whole appearing as though wadded upon emergence. |
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medial |
= central, median |
insertion |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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flaccid |
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texture |
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Limp, sometimes appearing withered or shrunken. See also tumid (swollen, turgid). |
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second glume |
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STRUCTURE |
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The upper (distal) member of a pair of small bracts inserted at the base of a grass (Poaceae) spikelet. |
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panniform |
< felted |
pubescence |
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Of closely intertwined, capillate trichomes that form a dense, felt-like mat. See also pannose. |
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ciliate |
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margin |
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Having fine, hair-like trichomes (cilia) oriented in the general plane of the structure. |
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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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decussate |
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arrangement |
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Opposite with successive pairs radially oriented at right angles to one another, thus polystichous with four equidistant ranks. |
