carnose |
= fleshy, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
unilateral 3 |
= one-sided |
position |
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Upon or arising from one side only of the bearing structure. |
nectary |
< gland |
STRUCTURE |
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A multicellular, anatomically distinct structure that produces and exudes nectar. |
unisexual |
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reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of only one sex. See also imperfect, pistillate, staminate. |
needle |
< leaf, macrophyll (not recommended), megaphyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A relatively stiff, compressed-acerose leaf; in Pinophyta. |
galeiform |
= galeate, helmet-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex overall with a more or less smoothly curved apex, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a helmet. See also cuculliform (cucullate, hood-shaped), which overlaps conceptually. |
sinistrorse |
= leftward |
orientation |
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Directed to the left, relative to the direction of growth along an explicit or implicit axis of reference. See also dextrorse (rightward). |
ampulla pl. ampullae |
= bladder |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, membranous, hollow, flask-shaped, insectivorous structure borne on a submerged leaf; esp. in Lentibulariaceae. |
craspedodromous, mixed- |
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venation |
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Having a midvein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, the secondary veins running thence toward the margin, some becoming indistinct before reaching it, others terminating there. |
phyllary |
= involucral bract; < bract (broad sense) |
STRUCTURE |
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One of the bracts composing the involucre of a capitulum (head); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
lancehead-shaped 1 |
= lanceolate |
plane shape |
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Elongate, moderately narrow, broadest just above the base and gradually attenuate toward the apex, the sides more or less straight; like the outline of the broad lateral face of a lance head. See also oblanceolate. |
tholiform |
= dome-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex overall, broadest at the base, and transversely more or less circular to elliptical throughout. |
sawtoothed |
= serrate |
margin |
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Having regularly spaced, angular convexities oriented at an acute angle to the generalized perimeter. See also scalloped (crenate), small-scalloped (crenulate), small-sawtoothed (serrulate), small-toothed (denticulate), toothed (dentate). |
orbiculate |
= round; orbicular misapplied |
plane shape |
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Circular. |
square |
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plane shape |
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Equilaterally rectangular. |
determinate |
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development |
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Having the terminal (central, apical, or distal) portion differentiating first and the lateral (peripheral, basal, or proximal) portions later, development thus proceeding sequentially downward or outward, growth of the whole thereby organizationally limited. |
primary vein |
> costa, midnerve (not recommended), midrib, midvein, rib; >< lateral vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to the first order of vasculature in a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
lunate |
= crescent-shaped |
plane shape |
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Arcuate, broadest at the middle, and attenuate to acute ends; like the stylized outline of a first-quarter moon. |
calyptrate |
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architecture |
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Having or constituting a calyptra. |
foveolate |
= fine-pitted, scrobiculate |
relief |
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Finely foveate (pitted). |
setose |
= hispid; < bristly |
pubescence |
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Bearing relatively long and slender, more or less straight, terete, fine-pointed, stiff trichomes. See also setulose (hispidulous, small-bristly). |
aerial |
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location |
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Above ground or water level. |
coriaceous |
= leathery |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
suborbicular |
= subglobose, subrotund, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost orbicular, slightly longer than broad. |
knee root |
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STRUCTURE |
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A specialized secondary root of a wetland tree, a portion of which projects above mean water level and appears to bend as a leg does at the knee, its distalmost portion being anchored in the substrate beneath the water. The knee of the root is commonly regarded as a conduit for gas exchange between root interior and atmosphere, a function whose need is posited on the basis of the highly anaerobic and saturated conditions prevailing in wetland substrates. |