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mealy 2 |
> farinaceous, farinose |
pubescence |
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Loose, dry, and disintegrating in finely granular pieces like meal or flour. |
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scutiform |
= buckler-shaped, scutate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oblong faces, planate to shallowly concave-convex, sometimes thickened about the periphery such that each face has a marginal rim; like an oblong shield. See also scutellate (platter-shaped, scutelliform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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capillary |
= capillate, hair-like |
solid shape |
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Finely filiform; like a hair. |
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superficial |
= surficial |
position |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
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ennea… |
= nine-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by nine entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in enneandrous, enneafoliolate, enneastylous. |
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resinous 2 |
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texture |
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Having the consistency of resin. |
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netted 2 |
= reticulate |
coloration |
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Having a pattern of interconnected fine lines of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
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slashed |
= laciniate; < cut, incised, lacerate, torn |
plane shape |
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Having relatively close, more or less straight lines of separation exending inward from the margin. See also cleft (dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented). |
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corolla tube 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The portion of the corolla of a bisexual or staminate disc floret proximal to the level of filament insertion; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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pilose |
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pubescence |
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Bearing relatively sparse, soft, slender, more or less erect capillate trichomes. See also pilosulous. |
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lanulose |
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pubescence |
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Finely lanate. |
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apex pl. apices |
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CHARACTER |
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Configuration of the uppermost, distal, or terminal portion of a structure, its extent determined somewhat subjectively in relation to the shape of the structure as a whole. The concept of apex varies from one descriptive context to another, since the apex is not a clearly delimited, morphologically distinct entity. The terms for describing apical condition are not strictly coordinate logically — some are more inclusive than others, some describe conditions involving what can be regarded as appendages, and some refer to the apex in a developmental as well as a strictly topological sense — and precise characterization may require using more than one descriptor. The semantic antecedent of some descriptors is "apex," whereas the antecedent of others is the structure as a whole (e.g., leaf ). |
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throat 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The fully connate portion of the limb of a disc floret, proximal to the lobes (distinct distal portions of the petals); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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feminine |
= female |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
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scabridulous |
= scabrellate, scabrellous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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scabrous 1 |
= rough |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing coarse, stiff, ascending trichomes and markedly rough to the touch. |
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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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decompound |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more orders of equivalent substructural entities; multiply compound. |
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prominence |
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CHARACTER |
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Elevation or depression of a discrete feature relative to the surrounding surface. |
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eccentric |
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position |
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Having a center or axis of symmetry not coincident with that of the context of reference. |
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macrospore (not recommended) |
= megaspore |
STRUCTURE |
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A female spore; a spore of the larger of two types produced by the sporophytes of a heterosporous taxon; produced in a megasporangium; giving rise upon germination to a megagametophyte. |
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barbed 2 |
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solid shape |
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Having one or more relatively short, stiff, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal and/or lateral hook-like appendages; esp. awns or setae. |
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umbilicate |
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solid shape |
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Having a relatively small, transversely round, central depression in an essentially round broad face. |
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frond |
< leaf, macrophyll (not recommended), megaphyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf in Polypodiophyta or Palmae (Arecaceae), usually relatively large and often highly dissected. Use of this term in preference to "leaf" in descriptions of ferns and palms is a matter of tradition only, not of morphological or evolutionary distinction. |
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caespitose |
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habit |
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See cespitose. |
