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flattened |
> complanate, compressed, depressed, obcompressed |
solid shape |
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Convex overall but with one or more sides or ends distinctly deviating toward plane, as though pressed or squeezed there. |
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slashed |
= laciniate; < cut, incised, lacerate, torn |
plane shape |
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Having relatively close, more or less straight lines of separation exending inward from the margin. See also cleft (dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented). |
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greasy 2 |
= oily, oleaginous, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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stipel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A stipular analogue subtending a leaflet. |
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tailed 2 |
= caudate |
base |
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With one or more relatively slender, retrorse basal enations or appendages. |
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two-… |
= bi…, di… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by two entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in two-cleft, two-flowered, two-loculed. See also individual entries for terms with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination; and also double-… (bi…, twice-…). |
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anther |
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STRUCTURE |
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The fertile, loculate, pollen-bearing portion of a stamen, containing one, two, or four thecae (pollen sacs), when that portion is differentiated from and borne at the summit of a narrower supporting stalk (filament), or when such differentiation is deemed to have occurred in the evolutionary past with subsequent reduction of the filament (the anther then sessile and constituting the entirety of the stamen). |
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beaklet 1 |
= rostellum |
STRUCTURE |
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A small beak or rostrum. |
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mucilaginous 1 |
= mucous; < glutinous |
coating |
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Of a slimy substance, or becoming so upon wetting. |
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overlapping 1 |
= imbricate(d) |
aestivation |
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Having members whorled or spirally inserted and overlapping one another, each overlapping or overlapped to either side, and also above or below if spirally arranged or in multiple whorls. |
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compound |
= composite |
architecture |
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Unitary as a whole but comprising two or more equivalent substructural entities, these topologically distinct (e.g., leaflets in a compound leaf) or not (e.g., carpels in a compound pistil). |
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pinnatisect |
< pinnate, pinnatifid |
plane shape |
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Pinnately divided with the sinuses extending to the central axis. |
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puncticulate |
= small-dotted |
relief |
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Finely punctate (dotted). |
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egg-shaped 1 |
= ovate |
plane shape |
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Elongate and wholly convex, widest near a bluntly rounded base and attenuate to a narrower rounded apex; like the lateral outline of a fowl egg. See also obovate. |
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round |
= orbiculate, orbicular misapplied |
plane shape |
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Circular. |
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glabrous |
= bald, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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honeycombed |
= alveolate |
relief |
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Having generally uniform, regularly and closely disposed, transversely polygonal depressions overall, the pattern resembling the external aspect of a honeycomb. |
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supramedial |
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insertion |
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Just above the middle of the structure in point. |
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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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trulliform |
= trowel-shaped, trullate |
plane shape |
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Broadest below the middle, more or less straightly attenuate to either end, the sides angled at the level of greatest width; like the blade of a mason's trowel. See also obtrullate, obtrulliform. |
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waisted |
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solid shape |
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Constricted in width or breadth at or near the middle of its length. |
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bald |
= glabrous, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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calyptra pl. calyptrae |
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STRUCTURE |
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A distal hood- or lid-like portion that detaches as a unit from the remainder of the structure; esp. in some Papaveraceae the unopened calyx that separates from the rest of the flower at anthesis. |
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odor |
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CHARACTER |
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Olfactory stimulation. |
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coccus pl. cocci |
= mericarp |
STRUCTURE |
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One of the segments of a dehisced schizocarp; usually one-seeded and itself indehiscent. |
