parchment-like |
= pergamentaceous |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
mucilaginous 2 |
= mucous; < glutinous |
texture |
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Slimy. |
spongy |
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texture |
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Soft, light, discontinuous but cohesive, and somewhat resilient. |
greasy 2 |
= oily, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
deliquescent 2 |
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texture |
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Delicately fleshy and liquifying at maturity or with pressure; e.g., petals of Tradescantia (Commelinaceae). |
watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
mucous 2 |
= mucilaginous; < glutinous |
texture |
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Slimy. |
stiff |
= rigent, rigid |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
bony |
= osseous |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
firm |
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texture |
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Yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption. |
hard |
= indurate(d) |
texture |
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Yielding only under strong pressure; not deformable without internal structural disruption. See also callose (callous), hard-coated (corticate), hard-stemmed (sclerocaulous). |
hard-coated |
= corticate |
texture |
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Having a hard exterior layer and a distinct, softer interior. |
pliable |
= flexible, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
hard-stemmed |
= sclerocaulous |
texture |
plant |
Having hard, relatively dry, but essentially herbaceous main stems that contain a significant proportion of sclerotic tissue or fibers. |
pliant |
= flexible, pliable, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
coriaceous |
= leathery |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
fleshy |
= carnose, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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. |
corky |
= suberous |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
ligneous |
= woody |
texture |
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Of or resembling xylem (wood). |
fleshy-stemmed |
= sarcocaulous |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are fleshy (carnose, sarcous). |
weak |
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texture |
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Very pliable and unresilient. |
succulent |
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texture |
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Herbaceous and juicy, often thickened (incrassate). |