forked |
= furcate; > bifurcate |
plane shape |
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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. |
forked |
= furcate; > bifurcate |
solid shape |
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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. |
fossula pl. fossulae |
= colpus, furrow, groove, sulcus, vallecula |
FEATURE |
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An elongate depression that is relatively shallow and narrow. |
fossulate |
= colpate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (fossulae). |
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. |
fovea pl. foveae |
= pit, scrobis |
FEATURE |
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A small, rounded depression. |
foveate |
= pitted |
relief |
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Having numerous, small, rounded depressions. See also foveolate (fine-pitted, scrobiculate). |
foveolate |
= fine-pitted, scrobiculate |
relief |
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Finely foveate (pitted). |
fragrant |
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odor |
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Sweet or otherwise pleasant. |
free |
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fusion |
dissimilar structure(s) |
Not fused with or joined to any other dissimilar structure(s). |
free-central |
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placentation |
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Upon the free axial column of a compound, unilocular ovary. |
friable |
= brittle |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
fringe |
= fimbria |
STRUCTURE |
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A marginal series or cycle of regular, slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments or protrusions, when treated as an aggregate structure. |
fringed |
= fimbriate |
margin |
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Regularly divided into slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments, or having protrusions that give the appearance of such division. See also fine-fringed (fimbrillate). |
frond |
< leaf, macrophyll (not recommended), megaphyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf in Polypodiophyta or Palmae (Arecaceae), usually relatively large and often highly dissected. Use of this term in preference to "leaf" in descriptions of ferns and palms is a matter of tradition only, not of morphological or evolutionary distinction. |
fruit |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unitary seed-bearing structure of a flowering plant, consisting of the matured or ripened pistil(s) of one or more flowers along with any other floral or vegetative tissue(s) persisting adnate to them; characteristic of and unique to Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae). |
fruity |
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odor |
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Sweetly to pungently fragrant and reminiscent of fruit. |
frutescent |
< shrubby; >< bushy |
habit |
plant |
Developing the character of a frutex (shrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
frutex pl. frutices |
= shrub; > bush |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial, woody, relatively short, with a single main stem that is not distinctly columnar and branches from or above ground level, the branches often crowded. See also suffrutex (subshrub, undershrub), tree, woody clump. |
fruticose |
< shrubby; >< bushy |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a frutex (shrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, frutescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
fugacious |
= fleeting |
duration |
structure |
Wilting or withering very shortly after emergence, soon becoming inconspicuous and falling away or disintegrating. |
full |
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extent |
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Reaching from the ovary wall or pericarp to the center of the ovary or fruit and from the apex to the base of its interior, thus separating adjacent locules completely. |
fungiform |
= mushroom-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a cylindric base and a considerably broader, pulvinate distal portion; like the generalized form of a mushroom. |
funicle |
= funiculus; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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A stalk that attaches an ovule to a placenta of the ovary wall. |
funicular |
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derivation |
aril |
Produced from or a modification of the funiculus (funicle). |