filamentous |
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texture |
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Composed of filiform (thread-like) strands with no intervening tissue. |
supple |
= flexible, pliable, pliant |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
oleaginous 2 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
pliable |
= flexible, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
chartaceous |
= papery, papyraceous |
texture |
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Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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. |
pliant |
= flexible, pliable, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
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Sticky or slimy. |
watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
medullose |
= pithy |
texture |
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Loose or spongy internally, denser and firmer externally. |
gelatinous |
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texture |
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Jelly-like; soft, moist, continuously cohesive, texturally homogeneous, somewhat resilient, and easily cut. |
unctuous 2 |
= greasy, oily, oleaginous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
loose 2 |
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texture |
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Soft overall, discontinuously and only weakly cohesive. |
herbaceous 2 |
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texture |
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Composed entirely of relatively soft, non-woody (unlignified) tissues derived from primary growth. |
leathery |
= coriaceous |
texture |
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Moderately thick, tough, and very pliable. |
scarious |
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texture |
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Very thin, dry, and not green. |
waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
osseous |
= bony |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
limp |
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texture |
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Lacking stiffness in in one or more dimensions, thus drooping or sagging where unsupported. |
firm |
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texture |
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Yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption. |
rigent |
= rigid, stiff |
texture |
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Strongly resisting deformation over its length. |
sclerocaulous |
= hard-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having hard, relatively dry, but essentially herbaceous main stems that contain a significant proportion of sclerotic tissue or fibers. |
waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
sarcocaulous |
= fleshy-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are sarcous (carnose, fleshy). |
pithy |
= medullose |
texture |
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Loose or spongy internally, denser and firmer externally. |