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papery |
= chartaceous, papyraceous |
texture |
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Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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pliable |
= flexible, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
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determinate |
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development |
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Having the terminal (central, apical, or distal) portion differentiating first and the lateral (peripheral, basal, or proximal) portions later, development thus proceeding sequentially downward or outward, growth of the whole thereby organizationally limited. |
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radix pl. radices |
= root |
STRUCTURE |
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A vascularized axis that is not internally differentiated into nodes and internodes and that branches endogenously, serving for anchorage, absorption and/or storage; collectively, all those portions of a plant body not belonging (anatomically) to the shoot. See also adventitious root, climbing root, diffuse root, knee root, primary root, prop root, secondary root, stilt root. |
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sawtoothlet |
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A diminutive sawtooth. See also scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
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slipper-shaped |
= calceolate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin-walled with an essentially hollow interior that is open on one side at the broader end. |
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imbricate(d) 1 |
= overlapping |
aestivation |
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Having members whorled or spirally inserted and overlapping one another, each overlapping or overlapped to either side, and also above or below if spirally arranged or in multiple whorls. |
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tapered |
= attenuate |
plane shape |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter from one end to the other. |
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lateral |
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insertion |
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To, toward, at, or upon a side, not apical or basal. |
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woolly |
> lanate |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing relatively long, moderately stout, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
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beaklet 2 |
= rostellum |
STRUCTURE |
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A sterile excrescent stigma lobe protruding between the anther and the functional stigma lobes of a column; sometimes forming one or more viscidia at pollinium maturity; esp. in Orchidaceae. |
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mucilaginous 2 |
= mucous; < glutinous |
texture |
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Slimy. |
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carnose |
= fleshy, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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pinnatisect |
< pinnate, pinnatifid |
solid shape |
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Pinnately divided with the sinuses extending to the central axis. |
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punctiform |
= dot-like |
plane shape |
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Very small and generally circular in outline. |
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egg-shaped 2 |
= ovoid |
solid shape |
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Transversely circular, broadest near a bluntly rounded base, and convexly attenuate to a narrower rounded apex; like a fowl egg. See also obovoid. |
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rounded |
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apex |
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Convex overall and more or less regularly curved. |
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…fid |
? …cleft, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in bifid, quadrifid. |
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gland |
> nectary |
STRUCTURE |
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An anatomically distinct multicellular structure that produces and exudes a particular substance, or resembles those that do. |
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staminal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stamens. |
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hood |
= cucullus |
STRUCTURE |
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A hood-shaped structure or component, esp. in an inflorescence or flower. |
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supramedial |
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position |
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Just above the middle of the structure in point. |
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knotty |
= knobby, nodose |
solid shape |
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Having knot-shaped (gongylodate, gongyloid, knob-shaped, nodiform) protrusions. See also nodulose. |
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trulloid |
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solid shape |
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Elongate, basically square in transverse section, broadest below the middle, regularly attenuate to angular ends, all faces essentially plane. See also obtrulloid. |
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wall (fruit, ovary, pollen, spore) |
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STRUCTURE |
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The exterior layer of tissue(s) enclosing anatomically distinct interior tissues and sometimes fluid and/or one or more cavities. |
