sword-shaped 1 |
= ensate |
plane shape |
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Elongate and moderately slender, broadest at the base and gradually attenuate to a short, more strongly attenuate, acute apex; like the outline of the lateral face of a broadsword blade. |
conduplicate 2 |
= duplicate |
vernation |
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Each leaf folded sharply inward along its longitudinal axis, the adaxial surfaces of each side facing one another. |
epiphyllous |
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insertion |
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Upon the leaves, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
rhytidomal |
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position |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
botuliform |
= sausage-shaped |
solid shape |
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Arcuately cylindric with rounded ends. |
stellate 2 |
= star-shaped |
plane shape |
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Having four or more intersecting radiate lobes or portions, each distally slender; like the stylized outline of a star. |
pith |
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STRUCTURE |
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The central ground tissue of a stem or, when present, of a root, consisting of thin-walled parenchyma cells; distinct and more or less soft and spongy relative to the other tissues of the axis; sometimes partly or wholly degenerating after secondary growth has begun. |
pseudoaxillary |
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insertion |
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Only apparently axillary; originally extraaxillary but displaced to the axil by differential growth during development. |
leftward |
= sinistrorse |
orientation |
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Directed to the left, relative to the direction of growth along an explicit or implicit axis of reference. See also rightward (dextrorse). |
torus 2 pl. tori |
= receptacle |
STRUCTURE |
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The short, expanded, compound axial structure surmounting a peduncle and basal to two or more flowers, or to the florets of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae), where it may bear paleae (receptacular bracts), scales, bristles, trichomes, or subulate enations, and may be smooth or variously pitted (alveolate, foveolate). |
crustaceous |
= crusty |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
firm |
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texture |
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Yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption. |
pallid |
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coloration |
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Relatively pale; not strongly colored. |
inflated |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin-walled with an essentially empty interior largely enclosed by the walls, which are convex overall and appear taut, as though from internal pressure. See also swollen (turgid, tumid), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
embryo sac |
< megagametophyte |
STRUCTURE |
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The multinucleate generative cell of an ovule, within which fertilization and zygote formation occur; resulting from meiotic division of a megaspore mother cell within the nucellus, and thus genetically haploid; its contents generally considered to represent an evolutionarily reduced gametophyte. |
remote |
= distant |
arrangement |
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Disposed relatively far from one another along the axis. |
masculine |
= male |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces microspores and sperm. |
unilateral 1 |
= one-sided |
architecture |
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Having only one side, as compared with presumably equivalent, bilaterally symmetric structures. |
neck (floral tube) |
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STRUCTURE |
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The solid, usually constricted portion of a floral tube sometimes present between casing and collar when those are both present. |
aril 2 (strict sense) |
= arillus |
STRUCTURE |
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An appendicular structure that wholly or partly envelops a seed and is an outgrowth from the funicle or raphe, and thus is ontogenetically derived from the placenta; usually fleshy or pulpy, sometimes spongy or tufted-capillate, often brightly colored. |
fusiform |
= spindle-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate, transversely round, broadest at the middle and regularly attenuate to either end. |
petiole |
< stalk, stipe (broad sense, not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk, when present, of a leaf. |
colpate |
= fossulate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (colpi). |
laminar 1 |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the lamina (blade) of a foliaceous structure. |
thallus 1 pl. thalli |
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STRUCTURE |
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The vegetative portion of a shoot when not differentiated into stem and leaves; esp. in Lemnaceae. |