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mitre-shaped |
= mitriform |
solid shape |
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Broadest and transversely round to oval proximally, tapering bilaterally above the middle to a central peak; like a peaked hat or cap. |
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mitriform |
= mitre-shaped |
solid shape |
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Broadest and transversely round to oval proximally, tapering bilaterally above the middle to a central peak; like a peaked hat or cap. |
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midnerve |
= midrib, midvein; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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midrib |
= midnerve, midvein; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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midvein |
= midnerve, midrib; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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male cone |
= microstrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A cone (strobilus) whose fertile organs are all microsporophylls. |
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leaf 2 pl. leaves |
= microphyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, lateral, leaf-like enation that, evolutionarily, is not a true leaf, i.e., whose vasculature, if any, consists of only a single median strand not ontogenetically integral with the vasculature of the bearing stem and not associated with leaf gaps in the stele of the stem; in Psilotophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta. |
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coccus pl. cocci |
= mericarp |
STRUCTURE |
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One of the segments of a dehisced schizocarp; usually one-seeded and itself indehiscent. |
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column foot |
= mentum |
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A lateral, often nectariferous protrusion from the proximal portion of a column, opposite the labellum, projecting in front of the rest of the flower; in Orchidaceae. |
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membranaceous |
= membranous |
texture |
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Extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like animal membrane. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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membranous |
= membranaceous |
texture |
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Extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like animal membrane. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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macrosporophyll (not recommended) |
= megasporophyll; > carpel, cone scale, ovuliferous scale |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporophyll that bears only megasporangia and, in Pinophyta, naked ovules that develop subsequently. |
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macrosporocarp (not recommended) |
= megasporocarp |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporocarp that bears only macrosporangia (megasporangia). |
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macrospore (not recommended) |
= megaspore |
STRUCTURE |
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A female spore; a spore of the larger of two types produced by the sporophytes of a heterosporous taxon; produced in a megasporangium; giving rise upon germination to a megagametophyte. |
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macrosporangium pl. macrosporangia (not recommended) |
= megasporangium |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporangium that produces megaspores. |
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macrophyllous (not recommended) |
= megaphyllous |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing megaphylls. |
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pithy |
= medullose |
texture |
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Loose or spongy internally, denser and firmer externally. |
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central |
= medial, median |
insertion |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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central |
= medial, median |
position |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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farinaceous 1 |
= mealy; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. See also farinose. |
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male |
= masculine |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces microspores and sperm. |
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multi… |
= many-…, pluri…, poly… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by a relatively large number of entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in multicarpellate, multicellular, multifacial, multiseriate. See also oligo… (few-…). |
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pluri… |
= many-…, multi…, poly… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by a relatively large number of entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in plurilocular, pluriseriate. See also oligo… (few-…). |
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poly… |
= many-…, multi…, pluri… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by a relatively large number of entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in polyadelphous, polyandrous, polycarpellate. See also entries for particular terms with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination;and also oligo… (few-…). |
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multicipital |
= many-stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
