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fleshy |
= carnose, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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fleshy-stemmed |
= sarcocaulous |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are fleshy (carnose, sarcous). |
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watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
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crusty |
= crustaceous |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
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hard-stemmed |
= sclerocaulous |
texture |
plant |
Having hard, relatively dry, but essentially herbaceous main stems that contain a significant proportion of sclerotic tissue or fibers. |
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loose 2 |
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texture |
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Soft overall, discontinuously and only weakly cohesive. |
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ceraceous 2 |
cereous, waxen, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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oily 2 |
= greasy, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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coriaceous |
= leathery |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
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flexible |
= pliable, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
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elastic |
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texture |
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Resiliently deformable with no loss of structural integrity. |
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rigent |
= rigid, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
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cereous 2 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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corky |
= suberous |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
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gummy |
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texture |
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Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
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filamentous |
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texture |
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Composed of filiform (thread-like) strands with no intervening tissue. |
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waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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oleaginous 2 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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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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ligneous |
= woody |
texture |
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Of or resembling xylem (wood). |
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rigid |
= rigent, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
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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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waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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farinaceous 1 |
= mealy; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. See also farinose. |
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suberous |
= corky |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
