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intravaginal |
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insertion |
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Within the leaf sheath. |
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crowded |
= compact, congested |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed very near to one another. |
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intravaginal |
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position |
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Within the leaf sheath. |
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suture |
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FEATURE |
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An evident line of ontogenetic union. |
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ampulla pl. ampullae |
= bladder |
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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epipetalous |
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insertion |
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Upon the petals, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
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rhomboid |
= diamond-shaped |
solid shape |
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Transversely square, broadest and longitudinally angular at the middle, regularly attenuate to angular ends, all faces essentially plane; like the stylized shape of a diamond. |
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cartilaginous |
= cartilage-like |
texture |
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Firm, dense, tough, somewhat pliable, and resilient, like human cartilage. |
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nucellus pl. nucelli |
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STRUCTURE |
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The distinct, genetically diploid tissue layer immediately surrounding the embryo sac of an ovule; often considered equivalent to a megasporangium wall. |
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hemispheric(al) |
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solid shape |
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Half-spheric(al); broadest at the base and uniformly rounded to the apex, circular in any transverse section, and half-circular in any median longitudinal section. |
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caesious |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Greenish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, greenish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also glaucescent, glaucous. |
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star-shaped 2 |
= stellate |
solid shape |
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Having a distal aspect like the stylized shape of a star; stipitate or sessile with elongate branches or appendages radiating widely in three dimensions from a common point at the apex of the proximal axis or, when sessile, upon the bearing surface. |
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diffuse-porous |
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porosity |
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Homogeneously porous, the vessels not differentially disposed by size or number. |
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leathery |
= coriaceous |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
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torulose |
= knotted |
solid shape |
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Elongate and irregularly round in transverse section with narrow irregular constrictions and intervening, closely proximate gongyloid sectors, the whole straight or variously curved; serially gongyloid; like a sequentially knotted rope. |
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fine-fringed |
= fimbrillate |
margin |
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Finely fringed (fimbriate). |
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scimitar-shaped |
= acinaciform |
solid shape |
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Thin and moderately arcuate with two opposite, plane, broad faces, the degree of curvature increasing distally, thinnest at the convex edge, thicker toward the concave; like a scimitar blade. |
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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. |
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palet 2 |
= pale, palea |
STRUCTURE |
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The upper or distal of the (usually) two distinctive bracts immediately subtending the flower in a grass (Poaceae) spikelet. |
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aerial |
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location |
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Above ground or water level. |
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emargination |
= notch |
FEATURE |
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A relatively small, acute sinus at the distal end of a laminar structure. |
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marginal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the margins. |
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canalicular |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the channel of a petiole or petiolule. |
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furrowed |
= colpate, fossulate, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (furrows). |
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costule |
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STRUCTURE |
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A longitudinal primary vein in a diminutive laminar structure, such as the blade of a leaflet, pinna or pinnule; a diminutive costa (rib). |
