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suffrutescent |
< subshrubby |
habit |
plant |
Becoming subshrubby. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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sucker |
> turion |
STRUCTURE |
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A shoot arising adventitiously from a root or stem below or at ground level. |
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succulent |
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texture |
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Herbaceous and juicy, often thickened (incrassate). |
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subvalvate |
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dehiscence |
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Incompletely or partly valvate. |
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subulate 2 |
= awl-shaped |
solid shape |
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Slender, essentially terete, and straight, gradually attenuate from a relatively narrow base to a very narrow, blunt to angular apex. |
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subulate 1 |
= awl-shaped |
plane shape |
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Narrowly triangular or truncate-triangular and broadest at the base; like the outline of the lateral face of an awl. |
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subterranean |
= hypogeal, hypogeous |
location |
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Within the ground, beneath its surface. |
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subterminal |
= subapical |
insertion |
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Lateral and just below the apex. |
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subterminal |
= subapical |
position |
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Lateral and just below the apex. |
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subtending |
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insertion |
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Arising from the axis just below and very near to the base of some other specified lateral structure. This term is meaningless if the structure that is subtended is not indicated. |
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subtending |
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position |
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Arising from the axis just below and very near to the base of some other specified lateral structure. This term is meaningless if the structure that is subtended is not indicated. |
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subspheroid(al) |
= subglobose, suborbicular, subrotund, subspheric(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost spheroid(al), slightly longer than broad. |
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subspheric(al) |
= subglobose, suborbicular, subrotund, subspheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost spheric(al), slightly longer than broad. |
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subsidiary cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the cytologically distinctive epidermal cells that are sometimes present in a stomate and that surround and are regularly oriented in relation to the guard cells. |
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subshrubby |
> suffrutescent, suffruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a subshrub (undershrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, woody-clumping. |
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subshrub |
= suffrutex, undershrub |
nominative |
plant |
Of shrub-like form but with only the base woody, bearing herbaceous branches that die back at the end of each growing season. See also bush, shrub (frutex), tree, woody clump. |
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subsessile |
= semistalked |
architecture |
structure |
Almost sessile; having a very short, somewhat indistinct stalk. |
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subround |
= subcircular; suborbicular misapplied, subrotund misapplied |
plane shape |
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Compressed circular or very broadly elliptic, only slightly longer than wide. |
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subrotund |
= subglobose, suborbicular, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost rotund, slightly longer than broad. |
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subpetiolar |
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insertion |
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Just below the point of petiole insertion. |
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subpetiolar |
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position |
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Just below the point of petiole insertion. |
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suborbicular |
= subglobose, subrotund, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost orbicular, slightly longer than broad. |
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subopposite |
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arrangement |
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Alternate but verging on opposite. |
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submersed |
= submerged |
location |
plant, structure of aquatic plant |
Beneath the water surface. |
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submergent |
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location |
structure of aquatic plant |
Descending from above the water surface to a point beneath it. |
