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oleaginous 2 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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unctuous 2 |
= greasy, oily, oleaginous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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watery |
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texture |
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Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. |
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course |
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CHARACTER |
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Linear pattern of the centerline through the length of an axis or vein. |
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flaccid |
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texture |
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Limp, sometimes appearing withered or shrunken. See also tumid (swollen, turgid). |
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lacrimate |
= teardrop-shaped |
plane shape |
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Like the stylized lateral outline of a teardrop; broadest just below the middle, broadly rounded to the base, and acutely attenuate to the apex; like the stylized lateral outline of a teardrop. |
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boat-shaped |
= cymbiform, navicular |
solid shape |
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Like the generalized form of a boat hull, the walls relatively thin to moderately thick, the interior essentially empty and open along one side. |
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cymbiform |
= boat-shaped, navicular |
solid shape |
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Like the generalized form of a boat hull, the walls relatively thin to moderately thick, the interior essentially empty and open along one side. |
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navicular |
= boat-shaped, cymbiform |
solid shape |
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Like the generalized form of a boat hull, the walls relatively thin to moderately thick, the interior essentially empty and open along one side. |
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dendritic |
= tree-like |
architecture |
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Like the branched axial structure of a tree. |
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tree-like |
= dendritic |
architecture |
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Like the branched axial structure of a tree. |
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dolabrate |
= axehead-shaped |
solid shape |
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Like an axehead oriented cutting edge downward. This term is not semantically distinct from dolabriform, but botanically they have had somewhat different applications. |
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axehead-shaped |
= dolabrate |
solid shape |
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Like an axe head oriented cutting edge downward. |
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cypsela pl. cypselae |
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nominative |
fruit |
Like an achene but derived from an inferior, bicarpellate ovary and with accessory perianth tissue adnate to the pericarp; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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silicle |
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nominative |
fruit |
Like a silique, but only slightly longer than broad to broader than long; esp. in Brassicaceae (Cruciferae), Capparaceae. |
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pyxis pl. pyxides |
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nominative |
fruit |
Like a capsule but circumscissile, the one or more seeds being released from the locule(s) upon separation of the distal, cap-like portion of the pericarp. See also diplotegium. |
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pepo |
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nominative |
fruit |
Like a berry but derived from a single, inferior, compound ovary, with accessory floral-tube tissue adnate to the pericarp, having a relatively thin, hard or leathery rind and a thicker, fleshy inner wall that surrounds a mass of seeds; esp. in Cucurbitaceae. |
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subapical |
= subterminal |
insertion |
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Lateral and just below the apex. |
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subapical |
= subterminal |
position |
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Lateral and just below the apex. |
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subterminal |
= subapical |
insertion |
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Lateral and just below the apex. |
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subterminal |
= subapical |
position |
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Lateral and just below the apex. |
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non-porous |
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porosity |
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Lacking vessels, the tracheary elements limited to tracheids and, sometimes, fiber-tracheids. |
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bald |
= glabrous, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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glabrous |
= bald, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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psilate |
= bald, glabrous |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
