non-stomate-bearing |
= astomatiferous |
architecture |
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Lacking stomates in the epidermis. |
corm |
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STRUCTURE |
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A short, thickened, solid, usually subterranean, sometimes fleshy stem base containing stored carbohydrates and serving as a perennating organ. |
helmet-shaped |
= galeate, galeiform |
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 hood-shaped (cucullate, cuculliform), which overlaps conceptually. |
staminodial |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the staminodes. |
pit |
= fovea, scrobis |
FEATURE |
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A small, rounded depression. |
leaf-opposed |
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position |
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Nodal and directly opposite the leaf. |
calcarate |
= spurred |
base |
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Having a relatively slender protrusion resembling a spur. |
top-shaped |
= turbinate |
solid shape |
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Broadly obovoid-obconic; like a spinning top. See also pear-shaped (pyriform), obturbinate. |
filiform |
= thread-like |
solid shape |
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Elongate and very slender, basically round in transverse section and of more or less uniform diameter, variously curved over its length or not. See also capillary (capillate, hair-like). |
palea 2 pl. paleae, paleas |
= pale, palet |
STRUCTURE |
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The distal bract of the (usually) two that immediately subtend the flower in a grass (Poaceae) spikelet; the other is the lemma. |
induplicate |
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aestivation |
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Basically valvate but with each member involute, the lateral abaxial surfaces of adjacent members contiguous. |
axillary |
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insertion |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
subulate 2 |
= awl-shaped |
solid shape |
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Slender, essentially terete, and straight, gradually attenuate from a relatively narrow base to a very narrow, blunt to angular apex. |
elliptic(al) 2 |
= oval |
plane shape |
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Elongate, widest at the middle, and symmetrically convex-attenuate to rounded ends. See also oblong. |
recurved |
= arching |
orientation |
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Curving outward (abaxially), downward, or backward. |
many-… |
= multi…, pluri…, poly… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by a relatively large number of entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in many-angled, many-pistilled, many-seeded. See also few-… (oligo…). |
unguis pl. ungues |
= claw |
STRUCTURE |
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The abruptly much narrower proximal portion, when present, of a laminar structure, esp. a petal; of variable shape itself, but usually attenuate toward the base. |
furcate |
= forked; > bifurcate |
apex |
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Having two or more terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
conduplicate 2 |
= duplicate |
vernation |
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Each leaf folded sharply inward along its longitudinal axis, the adaxial surfaces of each side facing one another. |
dolabrate |
= axehead-shaped |
solid shape |
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Like an axehead oriented cutting edge downward. This term is not semantically distinct from dolabriform, but botanically they have had somewhat different applications. |
lageniform |
= ampulliform, flask-shaped |
solid shape |
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Generally circular in cross-section, broadest at or below the middle, approximately globose below that and constricted above to a relatively narrow neck; like a flask. |
bristle 1 |
= arista, awn, seta |
STRUCTURE |
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A slender, more or less straight and stiff, fine-pointed, terminal or subterminal appendage or prolongation, sometimes a continuation of the bearing structure's central primary vein, as on a glume, lemma, or palea in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
tetra… |
= four-…, quadr(i)… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by four entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in tetrandrous, tetracarpellate, tetracolporate. See also individual entries for terms with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination. |
farina pl. farinae, farinas |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A dry, meal- or flour-like covering. |
…whorled |
= …cyclic, …seriate, …verticillate |
arrangement |
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Disposed in the number of whorls (cycles, series, verticils) indicated by the prefix; as in three-whorled, 1-whorled. |