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dotted 1 |
= punctate |
coloration |
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Having small, round, clear or colored spots that contrast with the ground color. See also small-dotted (puncticulate). |
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dotted 2 |
= punctate |
relief |
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Having small, round, shallow depressions or low protrusions. See also small-dotted (puncticulate). |
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small-dotted |
= puncticulate |
coloration |
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Finely dotted (punctate). |
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small-dotted |
= puncticulate |
relief |
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Finely dotted (punctate). |
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dot-like |
= punctiform |
plane shape |
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Very small and generally circular in outline. |
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dot |
= punctum |
FEATURE |
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A small, generally round sector of distinct coloration or relief. |
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acrid 1 |
= pungent |
apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a rigid, relatively short, sharp point composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
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acrid 2 |
= pungent |
odor |
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Sharp or astringent. |
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fetid |
= putrid |
odor |
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Stinking like rotting flesh. |
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stone |
= pyrene |
STRUCTURE |
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The hard inner portion of a drupe, consisting of osseous endocarp and included seed. |
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pear-shaped |
= pyriform |
solid shape |
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Basically circular in transverse section, broadest toward one end, attenuate toward and much narrower at the other, both ends rounded; slenderly turbinate or obturbinate; like a pear. |
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four-… |
= quadr(i)…, tetra… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by four entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in four-angled, four-petaled, four-ranked. |
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racemiform |
= raceme-like |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a raceme, but not strictly such. |
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raceme-like |
= racemiform |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a raceme, but not strictly such. |
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radiate 2 |
= radial, radiant, stellate |
arrangement |
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Disposed about and mutually divergent from a common geometric center in two or three dimensions, thus collectively actinomorphic. |
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radiant 2 |
= radial, radiate, stellate |
arrangement |
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Disposed about and mutually divergent from a common geometric center in two or three dimensions, thus collectively actinomorphic. |
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stellate 1 |
= radiant, radiate |
arrangement |
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Disposed about and mutually divergent from a common geometric center in two or three dimensions, thus collectively actinomorphic. |
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radial |
= radiant, radiate, stellate |
arrangement |
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Disposed about and mutually divergent from a common geometric center in two or three dimensions, thus collectively actinomorphic. |
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rooting |
= radicant |
architecture |
structure |
Developing adventitious roots; esp. stems or leaves. |
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rooted |
= radicate |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
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root 2 |
= radix |
STRUCTURE |
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A vascularized, primary or higher-order (branch) axis that is not differentiated into nodes and internodes and that branches endogenously, together with any non-axial structures borne from it; usually growing below ground level, but sometimes structurally and functionally specialized and growing wholly or partly aboveground (e.g. aerial root, knee root, pneumatophore). |
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branched 1 |
= ramiform, ramose, ramous |
architecture |
axis, vein |
Dividing into or bearing branches. |
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anomocytic |
= ranunculaceous |
architecture |
stomate |
Lacking subsidiary cells. |
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lamina 2 pl. laminae |
= ray |
STRUCTURE |
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The distal, relatively flat portion of the zygomorphic corolla of a ray floret, terminating in 0--4 teeth or lobes; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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torus 1 pl. tori |
= receptacle |
STRUCTURE |
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The relatively short, simple, axial structure surmounting a pedicel and basal to the flower, usually broader than the pedicel. |
