pale 2 |
= palea, palet |
STRUCTURE |
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The upper or distal of the (usually) two distinctive bracts immediately subtending the flower in a grass (Poaceae) spikelet. |
palea 1 pl. paleae, paleas |
= pale, palet, 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). |
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. |
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). |
receptacular bract |
= pale, palea, palet |
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). |
palet 2 |
= pale, palea |
STRUCTURE |
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The upper or distal of the (usually) two distinctive bracts immediately subtending the flower in a grass (Poaceae) spikelet. |
egg-shaped 2 |
= ovoid |
solid shape |
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Transversely circular, broadest near a bluntly rounded base, and convexly attenuate to a narrower rounded apex; like a fowl egg. See also obovoid. |
imbricate(d) 1 |
= overlapping |
aestivation |
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Having members whorled or spirally inserted and overlapping one another, each overlapping or overlapped to either side, and also above or below if spirally arranged or in multiple whorls. |
imbricate(d) 2 |
= overlapping |
arrangement |
planate structures |
Overlapping one another laterally and/or longitudinally. |
egg-shaped 1 |
= ovate |
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. |
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. |
bony |
= osseous |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
atropous |
= orthotropous |
orientation |
ovule |
Having the (straight) ovule sessile or funiculate and divaricate, the micropyle facing away from the ovary wall (placenta). |
round |
= orbiculate, orbicular misapplied |
plane shape |
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Circular. |
lid |
= operculum |
STRUCTURE |
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A distal, cover-like portion of a structure whose main body is otherwise closed, transversely discontinuous with the main body around most of the circumference, or becoming partially or wholly separate by transverse dehiscence; as of a pitcher (ascidium), pollen grain, pyxis, or spore case (sporangium). |
lidded |
= operculate |
architecture |
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Having a lid (operculum). |
development |
= ontogeny |
CHARACTER |
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Mode or pattern of growth and differentiation. |
mono… |
= one-…, single-…, uni… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by one entity of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in monandrous, monocolpate, monocyclic. See also entries for particular terms with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination. |
hyphodromous |
= one-veined, single-veined |
venation |
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Having one median, primary vein and no other venation externally evident. |
unilateral 1 |
= one-sided |
architecture |
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Having only one side, as compared with presumably equivalent, bilaterally symmetric structures. |
unilateral 2 |
= one-sided |
orientation |
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Disposed or directed toward one side only. |
unilateral 3 |
= one-sided |
insertion |
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Upon or arising from one side only of the bearing structure. |
unilateral 3 |
= one-sided |
position |
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Upon or arising from one side only of the bearing structure. |
unilabiate |
= one-lipped; < labiate, lipped |
architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Strongly zygomorphic with connate and/or coherent members some or all of whose distal portions form one lip-like structure. |
single-leafleted |
= one-leafleted, unifoliolate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Structurally compound but with only one leaflet, whose nature (as a leaflet, not a leaf) is revealed by an evident articulation with the petiole, this condition presumably derived by evolutionary reduction from a multifoliolate precursor. |