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capillary |
= capillate, hair-like |
solid shape |
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Finely filiform; like a hair. |
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capillate |
= capillary, hair-like |
solid shape |
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Finely filiform; like a hair. |
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capillus pl. capilli |
= hair; > glochid, glochidium; < cilium, trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A hair-like trichome. |
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capitate 1 |
= headed |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more capitula. |
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capitate 2 |
= headed |
solid shape |
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Abruptly enlarged distally to a relatively short, terminal portion that is basically round in transverse section. |
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capitate 3 |
= capitiform, head-shaped |
solid shape |
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Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. |
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capitiform |
= capitate, head-shaped |
solid shape |
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Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. |
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capitulescence |
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architecture |
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Mode or progressive pattern of bearing capitula (heads); most appropriately described using adjectival terms; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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capitulum pl. capitula |
= head |
nominative |
inflorescence |
Having crowded, sessile or subsessile, small flowers (florets) borne upon an expanded, distally plane or convex, sometimes paleate, compound receptacle (torus), often with a surrounding involucre, and sometimes a subtending calyculus; characteristic of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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capsular |
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architecture |
fruit |
Having the structure and texture of a capsule. |
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capsule |
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nominative |
fruit |
Dry, longitudinally or poricidally dehiscent, and derived from a compound ovary with one or more locules; containing one or more seeds. See also pyxis. |
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carina 1 pl. carinae |
= keel |
STRUCTURE |
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An elongate, median longitudinal ridge that is basically triangular in transverse section and resembles the keel of a boat; esp. in leaf blades and sheaths, glumes, lemmata, paleae, sepals, petals. |
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carina 2 pl. carinae |
= keel |
STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, the two relatively small, connate or coherent, abaxial (lower) petals that form the keel-like portion of a papilionaceous corolla. |
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carinal |
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aestivation |
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Having the petals of the keel (carina) enclosing the others. |
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carinate |
= keeled |
solid shape |
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Having an elongate median longitudinal ridge that is basically triangular in transverse section, resembling the keel of a boat; esp. a leaf blade or sheath, glume, lemma, palea, sepal or petal. |
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cariniform |
= keel-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate, basically triangular in transverse section, tapering at one or both ends, the outer edge thus somewhat arcuate, the whole resembling the keel of a boat. |
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carnivorous |
> insectivorous |
nutrition |
plant |
Capturing animals (usually insects), digesting their tissues by means of exoenzymes secreted by specialized cells or tissues, and assimilating the digested substances as nourishment, especially for nitrogen. |
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carnose |
= fleshy, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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carpel |
< macrosporophyll (not recommended), megasporophyll, pistil |
STRUCTURE |
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A more or less abstract unit of floral structure conceptually equivalent to a simple pistil or its putative evolutionary precursor (megasporophyll) or derivative (constituent of compound pistil); often regarded as the basic evolutionary unit of the gynoecium. |
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carpellate (not recommended) |
= pistillate |
architecture |
inflorescence, flower, floret |
Having functional pistils but no functional stamens, thus unisexual and female. |
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carpophore 1 |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk supporting a sporocarp. |
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carpophore 2 |
= columella; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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Any pedestal-like prolongation of a floral receptacle extending beyond the distalmost level of perianth insertion and bearing the gynoecium. |
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carpophore 3 |
= columella; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk supporting a mericarp after dehiscence of a schizocarpic fruit, the central axis of the fruit having split longitudinally to yield two or four such stalks; composed of receptacular and (primarily) gynoecial tissues; esp. in Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). |
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cartilage-like |
= cartilaginous |
texture |
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Firm, dense, tough, somewhat pliable, and resilient, like human cartilage. |
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cartilaginous |
= cartilage-like |
texture |
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Firm, dense, tough, somewhat pliable, and resilient, like human cartilage. |
