vermiculate |
= worm-shaped |
solid shape |
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Basically cylindric, elongate, and slender with bluntly rounded ends, variously curved over its length. |
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. |
plaited 2 |
= pleated, plicate |
vernation |
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Having alternately adaxial and abaxial lengthwise folds, resembling a closed fan. |
irregular 2 |
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course |
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Deviating asymmetrically from a straight line. |
root 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, all those portions of a plant body that are anatomically distinct from the shoot, the component axes not differentiated into nodes and internodes, and branching endogenously. |
oblate |
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plane shape |
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Symmetrically elongate and broader than long perpendicular to the developmental or polar axis. |
duration |
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CHARACTER |
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Extent of lifetime, or persistence and physical state after maturation. |
stigma pl. stigmata, stigmas |
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STRUCTURE |
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An exposed, localized portion of a pistil that retains deposited pollen and stimulates its germination, the pollen tubes then growing through or along it toward the ovule(s). |
awned |
= aristate, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more awns (aristae, bristles, setae). |
puberulent |
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pubescence |
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Finely pubescent in the restricted sense of that term. |
tri… 1 |
= three-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by three entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in tricarpellate, trifurcate, trilocular. |
median |
= central, medial |
insertion |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
cycle |
= series, verticil, whorl |
STRUCTURE |
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A set of three or more lateral structures that are inserted around an axis at the same level. |
flagellum pl. flagella |
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STRUCTURE |
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A very slender whip-like structure that extends from the main body of an antherozoid and, by active undulation, propels the cell through a liquid medium. |
chalaza pl. chalazae, chalazas |
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STRUCTURE |
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The basal (proximal) portion of an ovule, adjacent to its junction with the funiculus. |
secondary vein |
< lateral vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to the second order of vasculature in a leaf or other basically laminar structure, except when that is the ultimate order (consisting of veinlets); branching directly from a primary vein or, with undiminished diameter, from another strand of the second order. See also costa, primary vein, rib, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
papery |
= chartaceous, papyraceous |
texture |
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Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
infructescence 2 (not recommended) |
= coenocarp, multiple fruit, syncarp; > fig, syconium |
STRUCTURE |
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A compound fruit derived from the connate or coherent ovaries and accessory tissue(s), if any, of two or more adjacent flowers. |
superposed 1 |
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arrangement |
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Approximate to congested, inserted directly above and below one another. |
reticulate 2 |
= netted |
coloration |
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Having a pattern of interconnected fine lines of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
vallecula pl. valleculae |
= colpus, fossula, furrow, groove, sulcus |
STRUCTURE |
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A longitudinal depression that is relatively shallow and narrow; esp. in fruits of Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). |
distichous |
= two-ranked |
arrangement |
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Disposed in two ranks along the axis, the ranks opposite one another. |
adaxial |
= ventral (not recommended) |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) toward the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
small-bristly |
= setulose |
pubescence |
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Finely setose (hispid). |
arrangement |
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CHARACTER |
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Disposition of equivalent structures with respect to one another (positions/insertions and/or orientations, regarded collectively) within some explicit or implicit standard context. Overlaps conceptually with habit, insertion, orientation, position, and shape. |