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linear 2 |
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plane shape |
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Elongate and narrow with the sides more or less straight and parallel over most of its length. |
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vascular |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the vasculature. |
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aromatic |
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odor |
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Having a distinct odor; usually restricted to pleasant odors. |
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male cone |
= microstrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A cone (strobilus) whose fertile organs are all microsporophylls. |
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chewed |
= ruminate |
relief |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
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…parted |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted. |
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corrugate 2 |
= rugose, wrinkled |
relief |
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Having irregular, narrow ridges or creases, the intervening areas flat or only slightly concave or convex, appearing overall as though crumpled and then spread out. See also rugulose. |
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diffuse-porous |
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porosity |
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Homogeneously porous, the vessels not differentially disposed by size or number. |
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receptacular bract |
= pale, palea, palet |
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A small papery (chartaceous) to membranous bract borne on the compound receptacle (torus) of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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epipterous |
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solid shape |
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Alate with a single terminal wing. |
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scar |
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FEATURE |
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A discontinuity in surface color and/or relief due to abscission of a structure formerly borne there. |
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spathe |
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STRUCTURE |
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A usually relatively large, sometimes showy, foliose bract subtending and sometimes partially enclosing an inflorescence, esp. a spadicate one; in Liliidae (monocotyledons). |
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hair |
= capillus; > glochid, glochidium; < cilium, trichome |
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A hair-like trichome. |
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striate 2 |
= streaked; < lineate |
relief |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |
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tertiary vein |
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STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to the third order of vasculature in a leaf or other basically laminar structure, except when that is the ultimate order (consisting of veinlets); branching from a primary or secondary vein. See also costa, lateral vein, primary vein, rib, secondary vein, veinlet. |
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lobed |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, parted, partite, segmented |
plane shape |
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Having one or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that is/are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that is/are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
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bisexual |
= hermaphroditic |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
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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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conspicuous |
> showy |
manifestation |
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Prominently evident. |
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deltate |
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plane shape |
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Equilaterally triangular, broadest at the base, and regularly attenuate to an angular apex. See also obdeltate. |
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rachis 2 var. rhachis |
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STRUCTURE |
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A main or first-order axis of an inflorescence. |
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flabellate |
= fan-shaped, flabelliform |
solid shape |
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Strongly compressed, broadest near the apex and attenuate to a narrow base, plaited longitudinally, the alternating folds radiating from the base, the whole basically triangular in broad aspect; like a partially expanded folding fan. |
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…gonal |
= …angular |
plane shape |
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Having more or less straight sides of the number indicated by the prefix; as in pentagonal, trigonal. See also deltate, …gonous (…angled). |
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sterile frond |
= trophophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A frond that does not bear sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also fertile frond. |
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laminar 2 |
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solid shape |
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Relatively very thin with parallel opposite broad faces, the whole plane or variously curved. Structures to which this term, along with any other three-dimensional ones, is applicable are often also described as though only two-dimensional, using terms that are implicitly understood to refer only to the outline of the broad faces. |
