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sinuous |
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course |
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Regularly wavy in one plane, curved alternately and more or less regularly to either side. |
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dusty |
= lentiginose, lentiginous |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of minute, dry, macroscopically indistinguishable particles. See also powdery (pulverulent), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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female |
= feminine |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
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phyllode |
= phyllodium |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf deemed to consist entirely or almost entirely of tissues evolutionarily derived from the petiole, all or a distal portion of which has become expanded and blade-like, the original blade reduced to the point of absence or vestigiality. |
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lanceolate |
= lancehead-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate, moderately narrow, broadest just above the base and gradually attenuate toward the apex, the sides more or less straight; like the outline of the broad lateral face of a lance head. See also oblanceolate. |
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thread-like |
= filiform |
solid shape |
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Elongate and very slender, basically round in transverse section and of more or less uniform diameter, variously curved over its length or not. See also hair-like (capillary, capillate). |
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sawtoothlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A diminutive sawtooth. See also scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
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woody |
= ligneous |
texture |
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Of or resembling wood (xylem). |
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cyclic |
= seriate, verticillate, whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in groups of three or more, the members of each group (cycle, series, verticil, whorl) inserted around the axis at the same level. |
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articulate(d) |
= jointed |
architecture |
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Elongate with one or more distinct, relatively narrow zones of demarcation between adjacent main portions of the whole, these articulations (joints) often thicker and sometimes sites of eventual abscission. |
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ear-shaped |
= auriform |
solid shape |
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Resembling a mammalian outer ear. |
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acephalous 1 |
= headless |
architecture |
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Not terminated or surmounted by a head-like structure, esp. when one might be expected. |
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stalk |
> androgynophore, carpophore, columella, funicle, funiculus, gynophore, hypogynium, pedicel, peduncle, petiole, petiolule, sporangiophore, stipe (Orchidaceae), stipe (broad sense, not recommended); >< androphore |
STRUCTURE |
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A supporting axis or column that bears a structure at its apex; may be ontogenetically distinct from the structure that it bears, or may be the basal portion of an ontogenetic entity that includes both the stalk and the structure that it bears; usually narrower than the structure that it bears. |
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friable |
= brittle |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
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prismatic |
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solid shape |
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Uniformly polygonal in transverse section, basally and apically truncate, all faces essentially plane. |
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bulbil |
= bulblet |
STRUCTURE |
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A small bulb-like structure produced from a sterile or fertile plant structure other than a bulb, usually within a leaf axil, leaf sinus, or inflorescence, serving as a vegetative propagule. |
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lyrate |
= lyre-shaped |
plane shape |
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Basically obovate but with several proximal concavities on each side, these sinuses opposite one another in pairs and decreasing in size toward the base; like the frontal outline of a lyre. |
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seven-… |
= hepta… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by seven entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in seven-leafleted, seven-loculed, seven-winged. |
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subpetiolar |
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position |
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Just below the point of petiole insertion. |
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kneecap-shaped |
= patelliform |
solid shape |
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Thickly meniscoid, like a human kneecap. |
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centrifugal |
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development |
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Proceeding away from the center, thus more advanced centrally than peripherally within a given frame of reference. |
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mucro pl. mucrones, mucros |
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STRUCTURE |
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A short, hard, apical point that is a continuation of vascular tissue. See also apiculum. |
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viviparous |
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reproduction |
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Producing sexually or asexually generated offspring that begin growth and development while borne upon the parent plant. |
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crowded |
= compact, congested |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed very near to one another. |
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spire-shaped |
= strombuliform |
solid shape |
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Attenuate-spiral in three dimensions, the coils contiguous or not. |
