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testes-shaped |
= testicular |
solid shape |
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Bilaterally symmetrical, each side essentially oblate and constrictedly confluent with the other; like the overall shape of a pair of mammalian testes. |
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lenticel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A specialized, anatomically distinct structure within the periderm of a stem, consisting of comparatively spongy, sometimes suberized tissue distinct from others of the periderm; extending radially through the periderm and visible as a circular to elongate discontinuity in the color, texture, and/or relief of the outer surface of the stem; serving as a conduit for gas exchange between the stem interior and the atmosphere. |
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acerose |
= acicular, needle-shaped |
solid shape |
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Rounded in cross-section and very slenderly elongate, broadest near the middle, and gradually attenuate to an acute apex and a slightly blunter base; like a needle. |
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location |
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CHARACTER |
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Position with respect to aspects of environmental context. |
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blistered |
= bullate, puckered, pustulate |
relief |
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Having relatively coarse, irregularly disposed, rounded protrusions or convexities resembling blisters. See also papillate (papillose). |
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nectar |
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SUBSTANCE |
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An aqueous exudate of high sugar content. |
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cell 2 (not recommended) |
= chamber (not recommended), locule |
FEATURE |
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Any structurally distinct compartment within an anther, ovary, fruit, sporangium or other organ; not necessarily having any evolutionary integrity. |
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pandurate |
= fiddle-shaped |
plane shape |
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Basically obovate but with deep, rounded sinuses opposite one another in the proximal half; like the frontal outline of an inverted fiddle body. |
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planoconvex |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad faces, one plane and one convex. |
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dentate |
= toothed |
margin |
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Having regularly spaced, angular convexities oriented more or less perpendicular to the generalized perimeter. See also crenate (scalloped), crenulate (small-scalloped), denticulate (small-toothed), serrate (sawtoothed), serrulate (small-sawtoothed). |
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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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flagelliform |
= whip-like |
solid shape |
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Very slender, terete, generally straight, and apparently supple. |
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sinistrorse |
= leftward |
orientation |
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Directed to the left, relative to the direction of growth along an explicit or implicit axis of reference. See also dextrorse (rightward). |
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lancehead-shaped 2 |
= lanceoloid, lanciform |
solid shape |
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Considerably longer than broad, compressed or not, broadest near the base and somewhat concavely attenuate to the apex, the attenuation in all median longitudinal planes or else largely confined to one, depending upon the extent of compression, if any. See also oblanceoloid (oblanciform). |
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turnip-shaped |
= napiform |
solid shape |
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Depressed-globose overall and strongly concave-tapered (acuminate) at the base; like the generalized form of a turnip. |
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annular |
= ring-shaped |
solid shape |
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More or less evenly tubular in a closed circle; like a ring or doughnut. |
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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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pilosulous |
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pubescence |
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Finely pilose. |
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cycle |
= series, verticil, whorl |
STRUCTURE |
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A set of three or more lateral structures that are inserted around an axis at the same level. |
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pulvinate 2 |
= cushion-shaped, mound-shaped, pulviniform |
solid shape |
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Essentially round in transverse section, much broader than long or high, with a convex distal face that intersects either a more or less plane proximal face or, when the structure is sessile, its bearing surface. |
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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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rostrum 2 pl. rostra |
= beak |
STRUCTURE |
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The inner, horn-like segment of a coronal lobe; esp. in Asclepiadaceae. |
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setose |
= hispid; < bristly |
pubescence |
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Bearing relatively long and slender, more or less straight, terete, fine-pointed, stiff trichomes. See also setulose (hispidulous, small-bristly). |
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germination 1 |
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CHARACTER |
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The process wherein a dormant embryo resumes active metabolism and growth, the primary root and shoot emerging from the seed coat, the young sporophyte thereupon entering the seedling stage. |
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suprabasal |
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insertion |
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Just above the base of the structure in point. |
