wingless 2 |
= exalate |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Lacking lateral lobes or enations that resemble sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
wingless 1 |
= exalate |
architecture |
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Lacking elongate, relatively thin protrusions or appendages that resemble wings. |
winged 2 |
= alate, saccate, vesiculate |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having lateral lobes or enations that resemble sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
winged 1 |
= alate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively thin protrusions or appendages that resemble wings. |
wing 2 |
= ala |
STRUCTURE |
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One of the two lateral petals in a papilionaceous corolla. |
wing 1 |
= ala |
STRUCTURE |
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Any elongate, relatively thin protrusion or appendage. |
wind-pollinated |
= anemophilous |
reproduction |
plant, strobilus, flower |
Having the pollen normally transported between strobili or flowers by air currents. |
whorled |
= cyclic, seriate, verticillate |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in groups of three or more, the members of each group (cycle, series, verticil, whorl) inserted around the axis at the same level. |
whorl |
= cycle, series, verticil |
STRUCTURE |
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A set of three or more lateral structures that are inserted around an axis at the same level. |
whip-like |
= flagelliform |
solid shape |
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Very slender, terete, generally straight, and apparently supple. |
wheel-shaped |
= rotate |
solid shape |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Having a very short, cupulate tube and a broad, divergent to divaricate limb; resembling a wheel when viewed from the distal end. |
weeping |
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architecture |
plant |
Having elongate, flexible, pendent branches. |
wedge-shaped 2 |
= cuneate, obtriangular |
plane shape |
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Inversely triangular; like the outline of the broad lateral face of a wedge, broadest at the apex. See also obdeltate. |
wedge-shaped 1 |
= cuneate, obtriangular |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
weak |
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texture |
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Very pliable and unresilient. |
waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
waxy 1 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
waxen 1 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
wavy |
= undulate |
margin |
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Having regular, curved, smoothly connected, alternating, wave-like deviations upward and downward from the general plane of the structure. |
watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
warty |
= tuberculate, tuberculose, verrucose |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
wand-like |
= virgate |
architecture |
axis |
Long, slender, unbranched, and more or less straight. |
wall (fruit, ovary, pollen, spore) |
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STRUCTURE |
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The exterior layer of tissue(s) enclosing anatomically distinct interior tissues and sometimes fluid and/or one or more cavities. |
waisted |
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solid shape |
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Constricted in width or breadth at or near the middle of its length. |