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development |
= ontogeny |
CHARACTER |
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Mode or pattern of growth and differentiation. |
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raised |
> prominent, prominulous |
prominence |
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Protruding above the general level of the surrounding surface. |
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enzymatic |
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exudation |
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Secreting a digestive exoenzyme; in carnivorous plants. |
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scabrate |
= rough, scabrid, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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flesh |
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STRUCTURE |
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Tissue that is fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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small-beaked |
= rostellate |
apex |
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Diminutively beaked (rostrate). |
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groove |
= colpus, fossula, furrow, sulcus, vallecula |
FEATURE |
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A longitudinal depression that is relatively shallow and narrow. |
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stipule |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any distinct, relatively diminutive, more or less foliaceous structure inserted on a stem alongside a petiole, or on a petiole near its base, and ontogenetically closely associated with the leaf; usually occurring as one of a pair disposed one to either side of the petiole. |
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tapered |
= attenuate |
solid shape |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter from one end to the other. |
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lateral |
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position |
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To, toward, at, or upon a side, not apical or basal. |
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worm-shaped |
= vermiculate |
solid shape |
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Basically cylindric, elongate, and slender with bluntly rounded ends, variously curved over its length. |
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antheridium pl. antheridia |
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STRUCTURE |
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A male gametangium; a multicellular fertile organ of a mature gametophyte within which male gametes (antherozoids, spermatozoids) are produced and from which they are discharged, in some taxa forcibly, through a pore. Technically present but highly reduced and of no descriptive significance in Magnoliophyta and part of Pinophyta. |
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beard |
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STRUCTURE |
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A growth of relatively long, erect, flexible, capillary trichomes from one or more limited sectors of a structure's surface. |
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mucous 1 |
= mucilaginous; < glutinous |
coating |
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Of a slimy substance, or becoming so upon wetting. |
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carpel |
< macrosporophyll (not recommended), megasporophyll, pistil |
STRUCTURE |
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A more or less abstract unit of floral structure conceptually equivalent to a simple pistil or its putative evolutionary precursor (megasporophyll) or derivative (constituent of compound pistil); often regarded as the basic evolutionary unit of the gynoecium. |
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ovoid |
= egg-shaped |
solid shape |
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Transversely circular, broadest near a bluntly rounded base, and convexly attenuate to a narrower rounded apex; like a fowl egg. See also obovoid. |
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compressed |
= complanate; < flattened |
solid shape |
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Flattened bilaterally, parallel to the longitudinal axis, as though pressed or squeezed from opposing sides, the external surface otherwise basically convex. Used alone, this term usually implies a strong degree of flattening; otherwise, it is often used in combination with some other term that describes the overall shape exclusive of ("before") flattening, e.g., compressed-ovoid. See also depressed, obcompressed. |
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pinnule |
< leaflet |
STRUCTURE |
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A second- or higher-order division or leaflet of a pinnate frond; a division of a pinna; in Polypodiophyta. |
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punctum pl. puncta |
= dot |
FEATURE |
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A small, generally round sector of distinct coloration or relief. |
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eglandular |
= glandless |
architecture |
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Lacking glands. |
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rounded |
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base |
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Convex overall and more or less regularly curved. |
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…fid |
? …cleft, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in bifid, quadrifid. |
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glandless |
= eglandular |
architecture |
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Lacking glands. |
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staminal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stamens. |
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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. |
