|
glossy |
= laevigate, lustrous, polished, shining, shiny |
reflectance |
|
Uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles. |
|
glutinous 1 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
coating |
|
Of a sticky or slimy substance. |
|
glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
|
Sticky or slimy. |
|
goblet-shaped |
= crateriform |
solid shape |
|
Having a distal, concave, relatively thin-walled, basically hemispherical portion surmounting a much narrower, transversely round, pedestal-like base. |
|
gongylodate |
= gongyloid, knob-shaped, knot-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
|
Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
|
gongyloid |
= gongylodate, knob-shaped, knot-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
|
Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
|
grain (not recommended) |
= caryopsis; < achene |
nominative |
fruit |
The achene of a grass [Poaceae (Gramineae)] Although in traditional use grain (or caryopsis) has been treated as a type separate from achene, they do not differ in basic morphology. |
|
granular |
= granulate, granulose |
texture |
|
Composed of grain-like particles; loose, dry, and coarsely particulate. |
|
granulate |
= granular, granulose |
texture |
|
Composed of grain-like particles; loose, dry, and coarsely particulate. |
|
granuliferous |
= powdery, pulverulent |
coating |
|
Covered with a more or less even deposit of fine, dry particles. See also lentiginous (dusty, lentiginose), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
|
granulose |
= granular, granulate |
texture |
|
Composed of grain-like particles; loose, dry, and coarsely particulate. |
|
greasy 1 |
= oily, oleaginous, unctuous |
coating |
|
Of a grease- or oil-like film. |
|
greasy 2 |
= oily, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
|
Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
|
gregarious |
= clustered |
habit |
plants |
Growing in loose aggregations. See also cespitose. |
|
groove |
= colpus, fossula, furrow, sulcus, vallecula |
FEATURE |
|
A longitudinal depression that is relatively shallow and narrow. |
|
grooved |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
|
Having one or more relatively narrow and shallow longitudinal depressions (grooves). |
|
grumous |
|
solid shape |
|
Having an external aspect like a cluster of grains, basically convex overall. |
|
gum |
|
SUBSTANCE |
|
A highly viscous and sticky exudate that becomes more or less elastic and/or deformably solid upon drying. Overlaps conceptually with latex. |
|
gummy |
|
texture |
|
Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
|
gynaecium |
|
STRUCTURE |
|
See gynoecium. |
|
gynandrium pl. gynandria |
= column, gynostemium |
STRUCTURE |
|
A central floral structure consisting of the partly to wholly fused (connate and adnate) androecium and gynoecium; esp. in Orchidaceae. |
|
gynandrous |
|
architecture |
flower |
Having the androecium adnate to the gynoecium. |
|
gynecandrous |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Monoecious, each inflorescence having a distal sector with only pistillate flowers and a proximal sector with only staminate ones. |
|
gynobasic |
|
insertion |
style |
Apparently arising from the ovary base. |
|
gynodioecious |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Having some plants with only bisexual flowers and some with only pistillate ones. |
