herbaceous 1 |
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habit |
plant |
Having no significant degree of secondary growth in any part of the shoot, which thus does not develop woody (lignified) tissue. |
watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
cell 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any of the basic structural/functional units that collectively or individually make up the various tissues of a plant; comprising, at least while physiologically active, a nucleus with included genetic material (chromosomes), a surrounding cytoplasm with included organelles (e.g., ribosomes, mitochondria, plastids), an enclosing membrane, and an exterior cellulosic wall. |
pome |
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nominative |
fruit |
Indehiscent with accessory floral tube tissue adnate to the pericarp; derived from a single, inferior, compound ovary; the exterior thick and fleshy, the interior consisting of several locules bounded by cartilaginous tissue; in Rosaceae. |
angled |
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solid shape |
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Having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles. |
ciliate |
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margin |
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Having fine, hair-like trichomes (cilia) oriented in the general plane of the structure. |
radiate 1 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing one or more peripheral series of florets that are pistillate (either fertile or sterile) or neuter and that have zygomorphic corollas, and one or more central series of bisexual or functionally staminate florets that have actinomorphic corollas; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
inferior 1 |
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insertion |
indusium |
Inserted at the base of the sorus. |
transverse 2 |
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orientation |
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Perpendicular to the long axis of the context of reference. |
dilate(d) |
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solid shape |
elongate structure |
Narrow at one end and broadening toward the other; esp. when essentially terete at the narrow proximal end and seemingly flattened distally, as some anther filaments. |
ligule 4 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The distal, relatively flat portion of the zygomorphic corolla of a ligulate floret, terminating in 5 teeth or lobes; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
periclinal |
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orientation |
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Parallel to some given plane of reference; applied especially to the plane of cell division when it is oriented parallel to the generalized plane of the structural surface. |
geminicolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having four or more surficial grooves (colpi) disposed in pairs. |
parasitic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Heterotrophic and obtaining essential nourishment directly from other living organisms that derive no reciprocal benefit. |
trilete |
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architecture |
spore |
Having a triradiate tetrad scar. |
decussate |
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arrangement |
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Opposite with successive pairs radially oriented at right angles to one another, thus polystichous with four equidistant ranks. |
plantlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A juvenile, complete plant produced asexually by budding, as from the leaf margin in some Kalanchoë (Crassulaceae); this term is usually applied only while such vegetatively produced offspring remain attached to the plant of origin. |
rhizomatous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having rhizomes. |
endocarp |
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STRUCTURE |
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The innermost tissue layer of a pericarp. |
subpetiolar |
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position |
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Just below the point of petiole insertion. |
fruity |
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odor |
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Sweetly to pungently fragrant and reminiscent of fruit. |
staminodial |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the staminodes. |
scorpioid cyme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, the successive segments branching alternately to either side, the whole appearing to have a continuous, elongate, straight to zig-zag main axis. See also cincinnus, helicoid cyme (bostryx). |
valvate 2 |
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arrangement |
planate structures |
Not overlapping, adjacent members laterally contiguous at their margins. |
eucamptodromous |
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venation |
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Having a single median primary vein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, the secondary veins upwardly arcuate, gradually becoming indistinct interior to the margin, and serially interconnected by cross-branches without formation of marginal loops. |