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mealy 1 |
= farinaceous; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of or bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. |
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lateral |
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position |
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To, toward, at, or upon a side, not apical or basal. |
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corolla tube 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively narrow, fully connate portion of a sympetalous (gamopetalous) corolla proximal to a broader portion (limb) that comprises the distinct or connate distal portions of the petals; except in bisexual or staminate disc florets of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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endophytic |
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habit |
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Growing within some portion of another, unrelated, living plant. |
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honeycombed |
= alveolate |
relief |
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Having generally uniform, regularly and closely disposed, transversely polygonal depressions overall, the pattern resembling the external aspect of a honeycomb. |
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flagellum pl. flagella |
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A very slender whip-like structure that extends from the main body of an antherozoid and, by active undulation, propels the cell through a liquid medium. |
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scutelliform |
= platter-shaped, scutellate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oval faces, shallowly concave-convex; like a serving platter. See also scutate (buckler-shaped, scutiform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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awl-shaped 2 |
= subulate |
solid shape |
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Slender, essentially terete, and straight, gradually attenuate from a relatively narrow base to a very narrow, blunt to angular apex. |
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ray 2 |
= lamina |
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The distal, relatively flat portion of the corolla of a ray floret, terminating in 0--4 teeth or lobes; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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caudicle |
= translator arm |
STRUCTURE |
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An attenuate end portion by which a pollinium adheres to a pollinating insect, either directly or by means of a terminal viscidium, the latter, when present, sometimes attached by an intervening stipe; esp. in Asclepiadaceae, Orchidaceae. |
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valvate 1 |
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aestivation |
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Whorled and with members not overlapping, adjacent members laterally contiguous at their margins. |
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superficial |
= surficial |
insertion |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
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macrosporophyll (not recommended) |
= megasporophyll; > carpel, cone scale, ovuliferous scale |
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A sporophyll that bears only megasporangia and, in Pinophyta, naked ovules that develop subsequently. |
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resinous 1 |
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coating |
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Of liquid or hardened resin. |
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adventitious root |
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STRUCTURE |
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A root that arises laterally from some part of a shoot, often from the lower portion of a main stem. |
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comose |
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pubescence |
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Bearing a prominent single tuft of relatively long and slender, flexible, capillate trichomes (coma). |
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intruded |
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placentation |
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Upon partial septa excrescent from the wall of a compound, unilocular ovary. |
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squamella 1 pl. squamellae |
= squamule; < scale, trichome |
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A diminutive squama (lepis). |
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aristate 1 |
= awned, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more aristae (awns, bristles, setae). |
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labellum pl. labella |
< labium, lip |
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The third petal of a tripetalous flower when distinctively different from the other two, usually enlarged relative to them and/or differently shaped or colored, usually apparently the abaxial (lower) petal of the three due to resupination during ontogenesis; esp. in Orchidaceae. |
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conic(al) |
= cone-shaped |
solid shape |
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Transversely round, essentially triangular in median longitudinal section, and broadest proximally. See also obconic(al). |
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ear |
= auricle |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, rounded, lateral lobe at the base of a laminar structure, lying in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. |
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fertile frond |
< spore leaf, sporophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A frond that bears sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also sterile frond (trophophyll). |
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scabridous |
= rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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aromatic |
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odor |
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Having a distinct odor; usually restricted to pleasant odors. |
