glandless |
= eglandular |
architecture |
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Lacking glands. |
aciculate |
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coloration |
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Having fine, irregularly oriented, straight streaks of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
crowded |
= compact, congested |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed very near to one another. |
intravaginal |
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position |
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Within the leaf sheath. |
asymmetric(al) 1 |
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architecture |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
suture |
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FEATURE |
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An evident line of ontogenetic union. |
epipetalous |
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insertion |
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Upon the petals, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
rhomboid |
= diamond-shaped |
solid shape |
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Transversely square, broadest and longitudinally angular at the middle, regularly attenuate to angular ends, all faces essentially plane; like the stylized shape of a diamond. |
…cellular |
= …celled |
architecture |
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Having the number of cells indicated by the prefix; as in bicellular, multicellular, oligocellular. |
nucellus pl. nucelli |
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STRUCTURE |
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The distinct, genetically diploid tissue layer immediately surrounding the embryo sac of an ovule; often considered equivalent to a megasporangium wall. |
hemispheric(al) |
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solid shape |
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Half-spheric(al); broadest at the base and uniformly rounded to the apex, circular in any transverse section, and half-circular in any median longitudinal section. |
star-shaped 2 |
= stellate |
solid shape |
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Having a distal aspect like the stylized shape of a star; stipitate or sessile with elongate branches or appendages radiating widely in three dimensions from a common point at the apex of the proximal axis or, when sessile, upon the bearing surface. |
annulus 1 pl. annuli |
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STRUCTURE |
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A small ring-like protrusion from the strobilar stalk near its base and below the lowermost sporangiophores, sometimes bearing small sporangia; esp. in Equisetum. |
diffuse-porous |
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porosity |
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Homogeneously porous, the vessels not differentially disposed by size or number. |
leathery |
= coriaceous |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
bony |
= osseous |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
torulose |
= knotted |
solid shape |
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Elongate and irregularly round in transverse section with narrow irregular constrictions and intervening, closely proximate gongyloid sectors, the whole straight or variously curved; serially gongyloid; like a sequentially knotted rope. |
fine-fringed |
= fimbrillate |
margin |
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Finely fringed (fimbriate). |
scimitar-shaped |
= acinaciform |
solid shape |
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Thin and moderately arcuate with two opposite, plane, broad faces, the degree of curvature increasing distally, thinnest at the convex edge, thicker toward the concave; like a scimitar blade. |
palet 2 |
= pale, palea |
STRUCTURE |
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The upper or distal of the (usually) two distinctive bracts immediately subtending the flower in a grass (Poaceae) spikelet. |
emargination |
= notch |
FEATURE |
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A relatively small, acute sinus at the distal end of a laminar structure. |
marginal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the margins. |
carina 2 pl. carinae |
= keel |
STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, the two relatively small, connate or coherent, abaxial (lower) petals that form the keel-like portion of a papilionaceous corolla. |
furrowed |
= colpate, fossulate, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (furrows). |
costule |
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STRUCTURE |
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A longitudinal primary vein in a diminutive laminar structure, such as the blade of a leaflet, pinna or pinnule; a diminutive costa (rib). |