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lidded |
= operculate |
architecture |
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Having a lid (operculum). |
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obcordate |
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plane shape |
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Inversely cordate (heart-shaped). |
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pear-shaped |
= pyriform |
solid shape |
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Basically circular in transverse section, broadest toward one end, attenuate toward and much narrower at the other, both ends rounded; slenderly turbinate or obturbinate; like a pear. |
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acrocaulous |
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position |
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At or very near the stem tip. |
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poricidal |
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dehiscence |
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Forming one or more apertures in the exterior wall, usually apically or sub-apically, through which the contents pass to the outside. |
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architecture |
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CHARACTER |
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Composite structural configuration as to type, orientation, symmetry, insertion, position, fusion, presence, number, relative size, shape, texture, differentiation, and/or derivation of components and features. Overlaps conceptually with habit. |
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scrobis pl. scrobes |
= fovea, pit |
FEATURE |
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A small, rounded depression. |
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cereous 2 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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spheric(al) |
= globose, globular, orbicular, rotund, spheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a sphere or globe. |
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coriaceous |
= leathery |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
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strombuliform |
= spire-shaped |
solid shape |
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Attenuate-spiral in three dimensions, the coils contiguous or not. |
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tetrad scar |
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FEATURE |
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A surficial ridge or angle resulting from coherence with other spores produced from the same mother cell. |
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epibracteal |
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position |
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Upon the bracts, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
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unilateral 2 |
= one-sided |
orientation |
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Disposed or directed toward one side only. |
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flexible |
= pliable, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
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gum |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A highly viscous and sticky exudate that becomes more or less elastic and/or deformably solid upon drying. Overlaps conceptually with latex. |
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impressed |
< sunken |
prominence |
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Shallowly sunken. |
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needle-shaped |
= acerose, acicular |
solid shape |
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Rounded in cross-section and very slenderly elongate, broadest near the middle, and gradually attenuate to an acute apex and a slightly blunter base. |
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anticlinal |
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orientation |
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Perpendicular to some given plane of reference; applied especially to the plane of cell division when it is oriented at right angles to the generalized plane of the structural surface. |
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bent |
= flexed |
solid shape |
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Having an abrupt bend at some point along its length. See also declinate (inclinate), geniculate (kneed), inflexed, reflexed. |
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sawtooth |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of a series of regularly spaced, angular, marginal convexities oriented at an acute angle to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also sawtoothlet, scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth, toothlet. |
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carpophore 1 |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk supporting a sporocarp. |
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six-… |
= hexa… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by six entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in six-angled, six-sepaled, six-styled. |
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concolor(ous) |
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coloration |
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Uniform in hue and intensity of color; esp. leaves with identically colored adaxial and abaxial surfaces. |
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stipe 1 |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, slender connection between a pollinium caudicle and a viscidium; in Orchidaceae. |
