flabelliform |
= fan-shaped, flabellate |
solid shape |
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Strongly compressed, broadest near the apex and attenuate to a narrow base, plaited longitudinally, the alternating folds radiating from the base, the whole basically triangular in broad aspect; like a partially expanded folding fan. |
caudate 2 |
= tailed |
base |
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With one or more relatively slender, retrorse basal enations or appendages. |
parietal |
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placentation |
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Upon the inner wall surface of a unilocular ovary, thus peripheral within the locule. |
semiterete |
= half-terete |
solid shape |
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Terete but flattened on one side. |
endeca… |
= eleven-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by eleven entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in endecafoliolate, endecagynous. |
taproot |
< primary root |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary root that remains dominant through the life of the plant as the main axis of a vertically oriented system that penetrates the substrate to a considerable depth. |
tooth pl. teeth |
= dens |
STRUCTURE |
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One of a series of regularly spaced, angular, marginal convexities oriented more or less perpendicular to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also sawtooth, sawtoothlet, scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), toothlet. |
complanate |
= compressed; < flattened |
solid shape |
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Flattened bilaterally, parallel to the longitudinal axis, as though pressed or squeezed from opposing sides, the external surface otherwise basically convex. This term usually implies a strong degree of flattening. See also depressed, obcompressed. |
bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
apex |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
pinnatifid |
> pinnatisect; < pinnate |
plane shape |
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Pinnately divided. |
strigose |
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pubescence |
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Bearing sharp, rigid, appressed, capillate trichomes. See also strigillose (strigulose). |
dimidiate |
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solid shape |
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Halved, figuratively; bilaterally asymmetric, nearly or wholly lacking one side as implicitly compared with some corresponding bilaterally symmetric structure, real or imagined. |
female cone |
= macrostrobilus (not recommended), megastrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A cone (strobilus) whose fertile organs are all megasporophylls. |
deltate |
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plane shape |
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Equilaterally triangular, broadest at the base, and regularly attenuate to an angular apex. See also obdeltate. |
palet 1 |
= pale, palea, receptacular bract |
STRUCTURE |
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A small papery (chartaceous) to membranous bract borne on the compound receptacle (torus) of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
adaxial |
= ventral (not recommended) |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) toward the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
spot |
= blotch, macula |
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An area that differs in color from the rest of a structure's surface, usually due to differing coloration. See also eyespot. |
gummy |
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texture |
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Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
surficial |
= superficial |
position |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
tessellate 1 |
= checkered |
coloration |
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Having a pattern of more or less regularly disposed square zones of contrasting hues and/or intensities. |
macrosporophyll (not recommended) |
= megasporophyll; > carpel, cone scale, ovuliferous scale |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporophyll that bears only megasporangia and, in Pinophyta, naked ovules that develop subsequently. |
membrane |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively thin layer of tissue that covers or separates other, different tissue(s) and/or empty space(s). |
clustered 1 |
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arrangement |
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Disposed in one or more aggregates, the members of each inserted close together, thence widely divergent from one another. |
perigynium 2 pl. perigynia |
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STRUCTURE |
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A phyllary (involucral bract) or palea (pale, palet) that fully encloses a cypsela; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
stigma pl. stigmata, stigmas |
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STRUCTURE |
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An exposed, localized portion of a pistil that retains deposited pollen and stimulates its germination, the pollen tubes then growing through or along it toward the ovule(s). |