basal |
< proximal |
position |
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At or very near the developmental origin (base) of a structure. |
bark |
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STRUCTURE |
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The outermost portion of any shoot or root axis having secondary growth, consisting of all those tissues outside the vascular cambium; sometimes exhibiting zonation into inner, living bark and outer, dead bark; usually described only as to external appearance. |
barbellule |
= barbellula |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barbel (barbella); a very diminutive barb. |
barbellulate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbellules (barbellulae). |
barbellula pl. barbellulae |
= barbellule |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barbel (barbella); a very diminutive barb. |
barbellate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbels. |
barbella pl. barbellae |
= barbel |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barb. |
barbel |
= barbella |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barb. |
barbed 2 |
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solid shape |
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Having one or more relatively short, stiff, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal and/or lateral hook-like appendages; esp. awns or setae. |
barbed 1 |
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apex |
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Terminated by a small, relatively stiff, acutely reflexed, hook-like structure. |
barbate |
= bearded |
pubescence |
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Having one or more limited sectors bearing fairly long, erect, flexible, capillary trichomes. |
barb 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A trichome terminated by one or two small, relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely reflexed appendages. |
barb 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal or lateral appendage. |
banner |
= standard, vexillum |
STRUCTURE |
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The relatively large, erect adaxial (upper) petal in a papilionaceous corolla. |
banded |
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coloration |
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Broadly striped; having one or more elongate, relatively broad and, when multiple, more or less parallel, areas of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
balding |
= glabrescent |
pubescence |
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Becoming bald (glabrous, psilate) with age. |
bald |
= glabrous, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
bag-shaped |
= pouch-shaped, saccate, 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. |
baccate |
= berry-like |
architecture |
fruit |
Having the structure and texture of a berry. |
axis pl. axes |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unitary and longitudinally continuous structure that bears laterally the subordinate portion(s), if any, of a plant root or shoot or any subdivision thereof and that represents the main line of structural development and/or symmetry distal to its origin, irrespective of the particular ontogenetic growth pattern involved. See also primary axis. |
axillary |
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insertion |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
axillary |
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position |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
axile |
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placentation |
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Upon the central axis of a compound, plurilocular ovary. |
axil |
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FEATURE |
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The space bounded by and near the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
axehead-shaped |
= dolabrate |
solid shape |
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Like an axe head oriented cutting edge downward. |