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semiterete |
= half-terete |
solid shape |
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Terete but flattened on one side. |
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placenta-shaped |
= placentiform |
solid shape |
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Thickly discoid (disciform); like the generalized form of a human placenta. |
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scutiform |
= buckler-shaped, scutate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oblong faces, planate to shallowly concave-convex, sometimes thickened about the periphery such that each face has a marginal rim; like an oblong shield. See also scutellate (platter-shaped, scutelliform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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knot-shaped |
= gongylodate, gongyloid, knob-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
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Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
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clavate |
= club-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate and basically round in transverse section, the diameter greatest at or near a blunt apex, thence attenuate toward the base, the degree of taper greatest between the middle and the upper quarter. |
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lingulate |
= tongue-shaped |
solid shape |
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Broadly elongate and compressed, one broad face more or less plane and the other convex, the edges rounded between them; like a tongue. |
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cuniculate |
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solid shape |
elongate structure |
Hollow over a significant part of its length, the interior open at the end of the hollow portion. |
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discoid 1 |
= disciform |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with two round, plane or convex, opposite broad faces and a rounded circumferential edge; like a disc. See also lenticular (biconvex, lens-shaped), meniscoid, placentiform (placenta-shaped), trochlear (pulley-wheel-shaped). |
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ring-shaped |
= annular |
solid shape |
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More or less evenly tubular in a closed circle; like a ring or doughnut. |
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auriform |
= ear-shaped |
solid shape |
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Resembling a mammalian outer ear. |
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fungiform |
= mushroom-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a cylindric base and a considerably broader, pulvinate distal portion; like the generalized form of a mushroom. |
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hair-like |
= capillary, capillate |
solid shape |
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Finely filiform; resembling a hair. |
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slipper-shaped |
= calceolate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin-walled with an essentially hollow interior that is open on one side at the broader end. |
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gongylodate |
= gongyloid, knob-shaped, knot-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
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Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
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umbilicate |
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solid shape |
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Having a relatively small, transversely round, central depression in an essentially round broad face. |
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canaliculate |
= channeled |
solid shape |
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Having a longitudinal, transversely rounded depression; esp. a petiole or petiolule. |
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crateriform |
= goblet-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a distal, concave, relatively thin-walled, basically hemispherical portion surmounting a much narrower, transversely round, pedestal-like base. |
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knotted |
= torulose |
solid shape |
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Elongate and irregularly round in transverse section with narrow irregular constrictions and intervening, closely proximate gongyloid sectors, the whole straight or variously curved; serially gongyloid; like a sequentially knotted rope. |
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hippocrepiform |
= horseshoe-shaped |
solid shape |
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Relatively slender and strongly compressed, the whole strongly curved over its length in a plane perpendicular to the direction of compression and forming an incomplete circle, the ends somewhat straighter than the rest and parallel or nearly so; like a horseshoe. |
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broom-shaped |
= muscariform, penicillate |
solid shape |
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Having a proximal axis that bears a distal cluster of elongate slender branches or appendages, these variously ascending to erect; like a broom. |
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tubercular |
= tuberculose |
solid shape |
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Comprising small knot-like segments. |
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cup-shaped |
= calyciform, cupulate |
solid shape |
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Truncate-globose with the distal margin more or less entire; like the bowl of a cup. |
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heart-shaped 3 |
= cordiform |
solid shape |
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Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. |
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ventricose |
= bellied |
solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the middle, as though with a belly. |
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placentiform |
= placenta-shaped |
solid shape |
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Thickly disciform (discoid); like the generalized shape of a human placenta. |
