corniform |
= horn-shaped |
solid shape |
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Straight or curved and slenderly conic or conoidal, like an animal horn. |
corniculum pl. cornicula |
= horn |
STRUCTURE |
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A straight or curved, slenderly conic or conoidal protrusion or terminal portion that resembles an animal horn. |
hamate |
= hooked, uncinate |
apex |
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Having a recurved terminal portion that resembles a hook. |
unciform |
= hook-shaped |
solid shape |
|
Very slenderly elongate with a more or less straight proximal portion and a recurved terminal portion, the whole resembling a hook. |
cucullate 1 |
= hooded |
architecture |
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Bearing, incorporating, or surmounted by a hood-shaped structure. |
cucullus pl. cuculli |
= hood |
STRUCTURE |
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A cucullate (cuculliform) structure or component, esp. in an inflorescence or flower. |
alveolate |
= honeycombed |
relief |
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Having generally uniform, regularly and closely disposed, transversely polygonal depressions overall, the pattern resembling the external aspect of a honeycomb. |
excavate(d) |
= hollow |
architecture |
axis |
Having pith tissue absent or disintegrating prior to axial maturity, resulting in an uninterrupted cavity running the length of the axis. Semantically, this term and its synonym refer to the axis, not to the pith itself, although the latter application has been traditional. |
canescent |
= hoary |
pubescence |
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Densely covered with gray, fine, relatively short, capillate trichomes. |
setulose |
= hispidulous, small-bristly |
pubescence |
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Finely setose (hispid). |
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). |
horseshoe-shaped |
= hippocrepiform |
solid shape |
|
Relatively slender and strongly compressed, the whole strongly curved over its length in a plane perpendicular to the direction of compression and forming an incomplete circle, the ends somewhat straighter than the rest and parallel or nearly so; like a horseshoe. |
six-… |
= hexa… |
prefix |
|
Indicating presence of or constitution by six entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in six-angled, six-sepaled, six-styled. |
citrus fruit |
= hesperidium |
nominative |
fruit |
A berry derived from a compound ovary and having a thin, firm, leathery rind (exocarp), a thicker, white, spongy wall layer (mesocarp) internal to that, and a fleshy interior (endocarp) that constitutes the bulk of the fruit and is separable into a number of radial sections, each triangular in transsection and consisting of a thin outer membrane surrounding a mass of juicy, unicellular vescicles, among which the seeds are embedded on the adaxial side; esp. in Rutaceae. |
bisexual |
= hermaphroditic |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
seven-… |
= hepta… |
prefix |
|
Indicating presence of or constitution by seven entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in seven-leafleted, seven-loculed, seven-winged. |
amphitropous |
= hemianatropous |
orientation |
ovule |
Having the funiculus adnate to the proximal portion of the (straight) ovule, the latter lying and the micropyle facing parallel to the ovary wall (placenta). |
bostryx pl. bostryches |
= helicoid cyme |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, and all branch to the same side, the whole thus appearing to have an elongate main axis that curves or coils toward its unbranched side. See also scorpioid cyme. |
acyclic |
= helical, spiral |
arrangement |
|
Disposed helically about and along the axis, each on a different radius than the one(s) vertically adjacent. |
spiral 2 |
= helical |
course |
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Curving with regularly increasing radius from one end to the other in one general plane. |
spiral 3 |
= helical |
course |
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Curving with constant or regularly increasing radius from one end to the other through three dimensions. |
cordate 1 |
= heart-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two equal, more or less rounded, retrorse lobes, one to either side, overlapping or not, the intervening sinus relatively deep. |
cordate 2 |
= heart-shaped |
plane shape |
|
Fairly regularly attenuate from a broad, bilobate base to a narrow apex, the lobes large, rounded, retrorse, and intersecting; like the stylized outline of the broad lateral face of a heart. See also obcordate. |
cordiform |
= heart-shaped |
solid shape |
|
Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. |
acephalous 1 |
= headless |
architecture |
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Not terminated or surmounted by a head-like structure, esp. when one might be expected. |