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fimbriate |
= fringed |
margin |
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Regularly divided into slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments, or having protrusions that give the appearance of such division. See also fimbrillate (fine-fringed). |
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globular |
= globose, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al), spheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a globe or sphere. |
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star-shaped 2 |
= stellate |
solid shape |
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Having a distal aspect like the stylized shape of a star; stipitate or sessile with elongate branches or appendages radiating widely in three dimensions from a common point at the apex of the proximal axis or, when sessile, upon the bearing surface. |
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horny |
= corneous |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
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lacunate |
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relief |
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Having relatively large and deep depressions overall. |
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tuberculose 1 |
= tuberculate, verrucose, warty |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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weak |
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texture |
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Very pliable and unresilient. |
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barbel |
= barbella |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barb. |
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midvein |
= midnerve, midrib; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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canalicular |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the channel of a petiole or petiolule. |
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cuculliform |
= cucullate, hood-shaped |
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 galeiform (galeate, helmet-shaped), which overlaps conceptually. |
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ring-shaped |
= annular |
solid shape |
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More or less evenly tubular in a closed circle; like a ring or doughnut. |
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farinaceous 2 |
< mealy |
pubescence |
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Loose, dry, and disintegrating in finely granular pieces like meal or flour. |
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fusion |
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CHARACTER |
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Physical connection of equivalent or dissimilar structural entities (as recognized on evolutionary, morphological, anatomical, ontogenetic, and/or topological grounds). Terms that denote the interconnection of equivalent structures are predicated on a single collective subject and suffice in themselves to describe the condition; e.g., "sepals connate." However, those that denote the connection of dissimilar structures require explicit notation of each type of structure involved, in either a compound-subject construction or else a single-subject/object-of-preposition construction; e.g., "stamens and corolla adnate" or "stamens adnate to corolla." Qualifying detail is sometimes appropriate; e.g., "filaments connate basally," "filaments adnate to the petals over their lower halves." |
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squama pl. squamae |
= lepis; < scale, trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A relatively thick, planate trichome. See also squamella (squamule). |
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…sulcate |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …furrowed, …grooved, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of sulci indicated by the prefix; esp. pollen grains; as in monosulcate, polysulcate, 3-sulcate. |
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transverse 2 |
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orientation |
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Perpendicular to the long axis of the context of reference. |
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verticillate |
= cyclic, seriate, whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in groups of three or more, the members of each group (cycle, series, verticil, whorl) inserted regularly around the axis at the same level. |
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medial |
= central, median |
position |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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bullate |
= blistered, puckered, pustulate |
relief |
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Having relatively coarse, irregularly disposed, rounded protrusions or convexities resembling blisters. See also papillate (papillose). |
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bulliform |
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solid shape |
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Resembling a blister; broad, relatively thin at the periphery, the lower surface approximately flat, the upper shallowly to strongly convex. |
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oblong 1 |
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plane shape |
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Compressed-elliptic, the sides approximately parallel from near one end to near the other. See also elliptic(al) (oval). |
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penicillate |
= broom-shaped, muscariform |
solid shape |
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Having a proximal axis that bears a distal cluster of elongate slender branches or appendages, these variously ascending to erect; like a broom. |
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crena pl. crenae |
= scallop |
FEATURE |
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A rounded, marginal convexity or concavity in a series of such that alternate regularly and are oriented more or less perpendicular to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also crenule (scalloplet), dens (tooth), sawtooth, sawtoothlet, toothlet. |
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primary axis |
> ray |
STRUCTURE |
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A main or first-order axis within any specified, uniformly delimited structural context. |
