sap |
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SUBSTANCE |
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Generally, the fluid content of a plant body; more precisely, the sugary fluid transported by the phloem. |
saprophytic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Heterotrophic and obtaining essential nourishment directly from the decomposing remains of other organisms. |
sapwood |
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STRUCTURE |
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That portion of the wood (xylem) of a stem or root whose cells are still living and functional; concentric about the heartwood once the latter has begun to form. |
sarcocaulous |
= fleshy-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are sarcous (carnose, fleshy). |
sarcous |
= carnose, fleshy |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
sarmentose |
= runnering, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing stolons (runners), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
sausage-shaped |
= botuliform |
solid shape |
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Arcuately cylindric with rounded ends. |
sawtooth |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of a series of regularly spaced, angular, marginal convexities oriented at an acute angle to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also sawtoothlet, scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth, toothlet. |
sawtoothed |
= serrate |
margin |
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Having regularly spaced, angular convexities oriented at an acute angle to the generalized perimeter. See also scalloped (crenate), small-scalloped (crenulate), small-sawtoothed (serrulate), small-toothed (denticulate), toothed (dentate). |
sawtoothlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A diminutive sawtooth. See also scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
scabrate |
= rough, scabrid, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
scabrellate |
= scabrellous, scabridulous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
scabrellous |
= scabrellate, scabridulous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
scabrid |
= rough, scabrate, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
scabridous |
= rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
scabridulous |
= scabrellate, scabrellous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
scabrous 1 |
= rough |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing coarse, stiff, ascending trichomes and markedly rough to the touch. |
scabrous 2 |
= rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
scalariform |
= ladder-like |
arrangement |
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Disposed in vertical sequence with long axes horizontal and parallel. |
scale 1 |
< bract |
STRUCTURE |
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A basically dry, more or less appressed, diminutive bract. The choice of term as between the more general bract and the more restricted scale is sometimes problematic and, when so, often is dictated by custom according to the structure and taxon involved. |
scale 2 |
> lepis, squama, squamella, squamule; < trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A planate trichome. |
scale-like |
= squamiform |
solid shape |
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Isodiametric to elongate in broad outline, relatively very thin, and planate to moderately concave-convex. |
scallop |
= crena |
FEATURE |
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A rounded, marginal convexity or concavity in a series of such that alternate regularly and are oriented more or less perpendicular to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also sawtooth, sawtoothlet, scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
scalloped |
= crenate |
margin |
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Having regularly alternating, rounded convexities and concavities oriented more or less perpendicular to the generalized perimeter. See also sawtoothed (serrate), small-sawtoothed (serrulate), small-scalloped (crenulate), small-toothed (denticulate), toothed (dentate). |
scalloplet |
= crenule |
FEATURE |
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A diminutive scallop (crena). See also sawtooth, sawtoothlet, tooth (dens), toothlet. |