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rough 1 |
= scabrous |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing coarse, stiff, ascending, trichomes and markedly rough to the touch. |
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rough 2 |
= scabrate, scabrid, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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round |
= orbiculate, orbicular misapplied |
plane shape |
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Circular. |
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rounded |
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apex |
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Convex overall and more or less regularly curved. |
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rounded |
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base |
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Convex overall and more or less regularly curved. |
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rubiaceous |
= paracytic |
architecture |
stomate |
Having one or more subsidiary cells to either side, all oriented parallel to its long axis. |
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rudimentary |
= obsolete (not recommended); > vestigial |
manifestation |
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Not developing fully and not functional compared with corresponding structures in other taxa. |
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rugose |
= corrugate, wrinkled |
relief |
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Having irregular, narrow ridges or creases, the intervening areas flat to shallowly concave or convex, appearing overall as though crumpled and then spread out. See also rugulose. |
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rugulose |
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relief |
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Slightly or finely rugose (corrugate, wrinkled). |
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ruminate |
= chewed |
relief |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
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runcinate |
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plane shape |
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Basically obovate with a series of retrorse, acute lobes on either side, these diminishing in size toward the base. |
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runner |
= stolon |
STRUCTURE |
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A slender stem that grows horizontally upon or just beneath the ground surface, rooting at the nodes and giving rise to erect shoot segments at some nodes and/or at its apex. |
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runnering |
= sarmentose, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing runners (stolons), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
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S-shaped 1 |
= sigmoid |
course |
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Curved more or less regularly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, like the letter S. |
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S-shaped 2 |
= sigmoid |
solid shape |
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Elongate with more or less constant width or diameter and curved more or less regularly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, like the letter S. |
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saccate 1 |
= alate, vesiculate, winged |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having lateral lobes or enations resembling sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
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saccate 2 |
= bag-shaped, pouch-shaped, sack-shaped |
solid shape |
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Irregularly obovoid with an exterior aspect intermediate between inflated and flaccid; like a closed pouch or bag. |
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sack-shaped |
= bag-shaped, pouch-shaped, saccate |
solid shape |
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Irregularly obovoid with an exterior aspect intermediate between inflated and flaccid; like a closed pouch or bag. |
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saddle-shaped |
= selliform |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin, broad and long, strongly compound-curved, concavely from end to end and convexly from side to side; like the generalized shape of a saddle. |
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sagittate 1 |
= arrowhead-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two retrorse, generally triangular lobes, one to either side. |
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sagittate 2 |
= arrowhead-shaped |
plane shape |
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Generally triangular, tapering gradually from the base to an acute apex, the base with a relatively large, acute, retrorse lobe to either side; like the outline of the broad lateral face of an arrowhead. |
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salient |
= patent, porrect, spreading |
orientation |
lateral structure |
Antrorse and diverging at an acute angle from the bearing structure. |
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salt-excreting |
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exudation |
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Accumulating salt and discharging it directly to the exterior in a concentrated aqueous solution, the salt then crystallizing on the exterior following evaporation of the fluid medium; when salt-excreting glands are indicated in the nominative, usually they are called simply salt glands. |
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salverform |
= hypocrateriform |
solid shape |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Having a relatively long, slender tube and a divaricate, planate limb resembling a round platter. |
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samara |
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nominative |
fruit |
Dry, indehiscent and having one or more integral alate portions that aid in aerial dispersal. |
