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biennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of biennial duration. |
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bifacial |
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architecture |
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Having two opposite broad surfaces that differ distinctly in appearance. |
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bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
apex |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
plane shape |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
solid shape |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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bigeminate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with two orders of leaflets, each order bifoliolate. |
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bilabiate |
= two-lipped; < labiate, lipped |
architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Strongly zygomorphic with connate and/or coherent members whose distal portions form two unequal, opposing, lip-like structures, one adaxial, one abaxial. See also gaping (personate, ringent). |
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birettaform |
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solid shape |
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Approximately square in cross section and shallowly convex at the top; like a biretta (Roman Catholic cleric's hat). |
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bisexual |
= hermaphroditic |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
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bi… 1 |
= di…, two-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by two entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in bicarpellate, biciliate, bifid, bilocular. See also entries for particular terms beginning with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination. |
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bi… 2 |
= double-…, twice-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of two hierarchical orders of the type of entity or pattern denoted by the term's stem; as in bicrenate, bipinnate. See also entries for particular terms beginning with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination. |
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bladder |
= ampulla |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, membranous, hollow, flask-shaped, insectivorous structure borne on a submerged leaf; esp. in Lentibulariaceae. |
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blade |
= lamina |
STRUCTURE |
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The expanded, more or less planate, distal portion, when present, of a leaf, leaflet or bract. |
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blister |
= bulla, pustule |
FEATURE |
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A relatively coarse, rounded protrusion or convexity. See also papilla. |
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blistered |
= bullate, puckered, pustulate |
relief |
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Having relatively coarse, irregularly disposed, rounded protrusions or convexities resembling blisters. See also papillate (papillose). |
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blotch |
= macula, spot |
FEATURE |
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An area that differs in color from the rest of a structure's surface. See also eyespot. |
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blotched |
= maculate, spotted |
coloration |
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Having one or more areas that differ in color from the rest of the surface. See also eyespotted. |
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blunt 1 |
= obtuse |
apex |
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Bluntly angular; having an angular tip whose generalized sides intersect at an angle of 90° or more. |
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blunt 2 |
= obtuse |
base |
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Bluntly angular; having an angular proximal portion whose generalized sides intersect at an angle of 90° or more. |
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boat-shaped |
= cymbiform, navicular |
solid shape |
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Like the generalized form of a boat hull, the walls relatively thin to moderately thick, the interior essentially empty and open along one side. |
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bole |
= trunk; < main stem, primary stem |
STRUCTURE |
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The relatively stout, columnar, main stem of a distinct aboveground portion of a tree. |
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bony |
= osseous |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
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bossed |
= umbonate |
solid shape |
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Having an umbo. |
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bostryx pl. bostryches |
= helicoid cyme |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, and all branch to the same side, the whole thus appearing to have an elongate main axis that curves or coils toward its unbranched side. See also scorpioid cyme. |
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bottom-rooted |
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habit |
plant |
Aquatic and rooted in the substrate beneath the water. |
