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fimbriate |
= fringed |
margin |
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Regularly divided into slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments, or having protrusions that give the appearance of such division. See also fimbrillate (fine-fringed). |
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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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globular |
= globose, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al), spheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a globe or sphere. |
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horny |
= corneous |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
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tuberculose 1 |
= tuberculate, verrucose, warty |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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lacunate |
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relief |
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Having relatively large and deep depressions overall. |
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weak |
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texture |
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Very pliable and unresilient. |
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barbel |
= barbella |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barb. |
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midvein |
= midnerve, midrib; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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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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cuculliform |
= cucullate, hood-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex or compressed-convex overall with a distal peak or ridge, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a hood or cowl. See also galeiform (galeate, helmet-shaped), which overlaps conceptually. |
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ring-shaped |
= annular |
solid shape |
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More or less evenly tubular in a closed circle; like a ring or doughnut. |
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septum pl. septa |
> dissepiment, replum, trabecula |
STRUCTURE |
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A topologically and/or texturally distinct wall or partition that separates chambers or locules within an ovary, fruit or sporangium. |
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farinose |
< mealy |
pubescence |
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Bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes, collectively meal- or flour-like (farinaceous) and easily detached. See also farinaceous. |
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squamate |
= lepidote, squamose; < scaly |
pubescence |
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Bearing squamae (lepides). See also squamellose. |
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galea pl. galeae, galeas |
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STRUCTURE |
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A galeate (galeiform, helmet-shaped) sepal or petal in a zygomorphic calyx or corolla, differing markedly in shape from and sometimes partially enclosing the other sepals or petals. |
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sulcus pl. sulci |
= colpus, fossula, furrow, groove, vallecula |
FEATURE |
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An elongate depression that is relatively shallow and narrow. |
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trapeziform |
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plane shape |
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Four-sided and either asymmetrical or bilaterally symmetrical like a triangle truncated distally perpendicular to its central axis. |
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…verticillate |
= …cyclic, …seriate, …whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed in the number of verticils (cycles, series, whorls) indicated by the prefix; as in five-whorled, 3-whorled. |
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attenuate 1 |
= concave-tapered |
base |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter toward the proximal end, the sides longitudinally concave. Corresponds with acuminate for apex shape. |
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median |
= central, medial |
insertion |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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oblong 1 |
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plane shape |
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Compressed-elliptic, the sides approximately parallel from near one end to near the other. See also elliptic(al) (oval). |
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bulliform |
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solid shape |
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Resembling a blister; broad, relatively thin at the periphery, the lower surface approximately flat, the upper shallowly to strongly convex. |
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penicillate |
= broom-shaped, muscariform |
solid shape |
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Having a proximal axis that bears a distal cluster of elongate slender branches or appendages, these variously ascending to erect; like a broom. |
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primary axis |
> ray |
STRUCTURE |
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A main or first-order axis within any specified, uniformly delimited structural context. |
