…cyclic |
= …seriate, …verticillate, …whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed in the number of cycles (series, verticils, whorls) indicated by the prefix; as in monocyclic, 3-cyclic. |
marginal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the margins. |
cladodromous |
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venation |
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Having a single median primary vein that branches to either side along its length, the secondary veins running thence toward the margin, but freely ramifying and becoming indistinct before reaching it. |
plumose |
= feather-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a slender central axis bearing two opposite ranks of numerous, closely proximate, ascending, very slender branches or appendages; resembling the generalized form of a feather. |
oblong 2 |
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solid shape |
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Compressed-ellipsoid, the sides approximately parallel from near one end to near the other. See also ellipsoid(al). |
peripterous |
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solid shape |
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Alate with a single transversely encircling wing. |
flexible |
= pliable, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
sawtooth |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of a series of regularly spaced, angular, marginal convexities oriented at an acute angle to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also sawtoothlet, scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth, toothlet. |
carpophore 2 |
= columella; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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Any pedestal-like prolongation of a floral receptacle extending beyond the distalmost level of perianth insertion and bearing the gynoecium. |
simple 1 |
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architecture |
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Externally unitary and comprising only one basic morphological unit; not compound in either sense of that term. |
…gonous |
= …angled |
solid shape |
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Elongate with the number of longitudinal angles indicated by the prefix, the intervening sides transversely straight to concave; as in hexagonous, trigonous. See also deltoid, …gonal (…angular), obdeltoid, triquetrous. |
divided |
? cleft, dissected, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented |
solid shape |
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Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that 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). |
crown-shaped |
= coroniform |
solid shape |
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Shortly and broadly tubular overall, circumferentially continuous at the base, distally so or not; like a monarch's crown. |
longitudinal 2 |
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orientation |
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Parallel to the long axis of the context of reference. |
papilla pl. papillae |
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FEATURE |
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A small, conoidal protrusion resembling a pimple. See also pustule (blister, bulla). |
winged 1 |
= alate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively thin protrusions or appendages that resemble wings. |
hood-shaped |
= cucullate, cuculliform |
solid shape |
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Convex or compressed-convex overall with a distal peak or ridge, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a hood or cowl. See also helmet-shaped (galeate, galeiform), which overlaps conceptually. |
bursicle |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pouch- or flap-like protrusion from the stigma that encloses the caudicle of a pollinium. |
unilateral 3 |
= one-sided |
position |
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Upon or arising from one side only of the bearing structure. |
involucre 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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One or more closely proximate whorls, or a compact spiral, of bracts immediately subtending an inflorescence, the bracts sometimes leaf-like, sometimes petaloid. |
node |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the evident sectors of a stem that occur sequentially along its length and from which leaves (megaphylls) and lateral branches arise exogenously. The anatomy of nodes differs from, but is not abruptly distinct longitudinally from, that of the intervening sectors (internodes), with which it is smoothly confluent and from which is distinguished by the lateral transit and egress of vascular traces interconnecting the stem and the leaves and branches that it bears. |
pedicel |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk, when present, of a single flower, except when the flower is solitary and deemed to represent an evolutionarily reduced compound inflorescence borne directly upon a peduncle. |
fine-pitted |
= foveolate, scrobiculate |
relief |
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Finely pitted (foveate). |
squamule 1 |
= squamella; < scale |
STRUCTURE |
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A diminutive squama (lepis). |
contorted 1 |
= convolute |
aestivation |
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Imbricate and whorled, each member in turn overlapped by that to one side and overlapping that to the other, the whole tightly rolled and appearing as though twisted. |