helical 3 |
= spiral |
course |
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Curving with constant or regularly increasing radius from one end to the other through three dimensions. |
tongue-shaped |
= lingulate |
solid shape |
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Broadly elongate and compressed, one broad face more or less plane and the other convex, the edges rounded between them; like a tongue. |
lineate 1 |
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coloration |
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Having very narrow, straight, clear or colored lines that contrast with the ground color. |
vascular bundle |
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STRUCTURE |
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A discrete strand of conducting tissues (xylem, phloem) and associated cells (e.g., cambium) within a stem or other axial structure. |
aromatic |
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odor |
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Having a distinct odor; usually restricted to pleasant odors. |
male cone |
= microstrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A cone (strobilus) whose fertile organs are all microsporophylls. |
chewed |
= ruminate |
relief |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
…parted |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted. |
corrugate 2 |
= rugose, wrinkled |
relief |
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Having irregular, narrow ridges or creases, the intervening areas flat or only slightly concave or convex, appearing overall as though crumpled and then spread out. See also rugulose. |
diffuse-porous |
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porosity |
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Homogeneously porous, the vessels not differentially disposed by size or number. |
receptacular bract |
= pale, palea, palet |
STRUCTURE |
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A small papery (chartaceous) to membranous bract borne on the compound receptacle (torus) of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
epipterous |
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solid shape |
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Alate with a single terminal wing. |
scar |
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FEATURE |
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A discontinuity in surface color and/or relief due to abscission of a structure formerly borne there. |
spathe |
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STRUCTURE |
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A usually relatively large, sometimes showy, foliose bract subtending and sometimes partially enclosing an inflorescence, esp. a spadicate one; in Liliidae (monocotyledons). |
hair |
= capillus; > glochid, glochidium; < cilium, trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A hair-like trichome. |
striate 2 |
= streaked; < lineate |
relief |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |
tertiary vein |
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STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to the third order of vasculature in a leaf or other basically laminar structure, except when that is the ultimate order (consisting of veinlets); branching from a primary or secondary vein. See also costa, lateral vein, primary vein, rib, secondary vein, veinlet. |
…lobed |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes indicated by the prefix; as in five-lobed. |
bladder |
= ampulla |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, membranous, hollow, flask-shaped, insectivorous structure borne on a submerged leaf; esp. in Lentibulariaceae. |
near-bald |
= glabrate |
pubescence |
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Nearly glabrous, with only a very sparse covering of trichomes. |
cauline |
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insertion |
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Upon, arising from, or otherwise directly associated with the stem. |
palmatifid |
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plane shape |
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Palmately lobate; having three or more lobes whose longitudinal axes radiate from a common point. |
contiguous |
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arrangement |
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Touching one another. |
plaited 2 |
= pleated, plicate |
vernation |
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Having alternately adaxial and abaxial lengthwise folds, resembling a closed fan. |
deltoid |
< three-angled, trigonous, triquetrous |
solid shape |
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Three-angular (trigonous, triquetrous), broadest at the base, and regularly attenuate to an angular apex; equilaterally pyramidal with three lateral faces. See also obdeltoid. |