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unctuous 2 |
= greasy, oily, oleaginous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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sickle-shaped 1 |
= falcate |
plane shape |
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Elongate and laterally arcuate with the lateral edges more or less concentric, the degree of curvature decreasing distally or not; like the outline of the face of a sickle blade. |
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gland |
> nectary |
STRUCTURE |
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An anatomically distinct multicellular structure that produces and exudes a particular substance, or resembles those that do. |
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course |
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CHARACTER |
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Linear pattern of the centerline through the length of an axis or vein. |
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bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
apex |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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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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tessellate 1 |
= checkered |
coloration |
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Having a pattern of more or less regularly disposed square zones of contrasting hues and/or intensities. |
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saddle-shaped |
= selliform |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin, broad and long, strongly compound-curved, concavely from end to end and convexly from side to side; like the generalized shape of a saddle. |
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basal cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any of the ring of cells forming the lowermost (proximal) portion of an antheridial wall. |
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porosity |
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CHARACTER |
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Presence and disposition of vessels (pores) in wood (xylem). |
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canaliculate |
= channeled |
solid shape |
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Having a longitudinal, transversely rounded depression; esp. a petiole or petiolule. |
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lobed |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, parted, partite, segmented |
solid 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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diffuse root |
> fibrous root |
STRUCTURE |
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Any member of a dense system of adventitious, slender roots that arise from the base of a main stem and functionally replace an evanescent primary root. |
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septum pl. septa |
> dissepiment, replum, trabecula |
STRUCTURE |
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A topologically and/or texturally distinct wall or partition that separates chambers or locules within an ovary, fruit or sporangium. |
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fimbrillate |
= fine-fringed |
margin |
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Finely fimbriate (fringed). |
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peduncle |
<stalk, stipe (broad sense, not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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The common stalk, when present, of a compound inflorescence or first-order subunit thereof, or of a solitary flower that is deemed to represent an evolutionarily reduced compound inflorescence. |
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hypochilium |
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STRUCTURE |
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The proximal portion of a labellum (lip) that has distinct proximal, distal, and sometimes also central parts; in Orchidaceae. See also epichilium, mesochilium. |
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cordiform |
= heart-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. |
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furrow |
= colpus, fossula, groove, sulcus, vallecula |
FEATURE |
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An elongate depression that is relatively shallow and narrow. |
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pleated 2 |
= plaited, plicate |
vernation |
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Having alternately adaxial and abaxial lengthwise folds, resembling a closed fan. |
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lid |
= operculum |
STRUCTURE |
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A distal, cover-like portion of a structure whose main body is otherwise closed, transversely discontinuous with the main body around most of the circumference, or becoming partially or wholly separate by transverse dehiscence; as of a pitcher (ascidium), pollen grain, pyxis, or spore case (sporangium). |
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rostellate |
= small-beaked |
apex |
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Diminutively rostrate (beaked). |
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obovoid |
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solid shape |
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Inversely ovoid (egg-shaped). |
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farinose |
< mealy |
pubescence |
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Bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes, collectively meal- or flour-like (farinaceous) and easily detached. See also farinaceous. |
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hirtellous |
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pubescence |
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Finely hirsute. |
