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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 |
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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. |
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…winged |
= …pterous |
architecture |
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Having the number of wings (alae) indicated by the prefix; as in 3-winged, five-winged. |
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basicaulous |
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insertion |
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At or very near the stem base. |
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capitiform |
= capitate, head-shaped |
solid shape |
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Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. |
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opposite 2 |
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arrangement |
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Having the members of each whorl inserted directly above and/or below those of the next adjacent whorl(s). See also antipetalous, antisepalous. |
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column foot |
= mentum |
STRUCTURE |
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A lateral, often nectariferous protrusion from the proximal portion of a column, opposite the labellum, projecting in front of the rest of the flower; in Orchidaceae. |
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phyllodium pl. phyllodia |
= phyllode |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf deemed to consist entirely or almost entirely of tissues evolutionarily derived from the petiole, all or a distal portion of which has become laminar, the original blade reduced to the point of absence or vestigiality. |
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cut |
= incised, lacerate, torn; > laciniate, slashed |
plane shape |
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Having straight to irregular lines of separation extending inward from the margin. See also cleft (dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented). |
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puckered |
= blistered, bullate, 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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dusty |
= lentiginose, lentiginous |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of minute, dry, macroscopically indistinguishable particles. See also powdery (pulverulent), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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rostellum 1 pl. rostella |
= beaklet |
STRUCTURE |
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A small rostrum (beak). |
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female |
= feminine |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
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seta 1 pl. setae |
= arista, awn, bristle |
STRUCTURE |
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A slender, more or less straight and stiff, fine-pointed, terminal or subterminal appendage or prolongation, sometimes a continuation of the bearing structure's central primary vein, as on a glume, lemma, or palea in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
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geminate |
= conjugate, paired |
arrangement |
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Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. |
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hispidulous |
= setulose, small-bristly |
pubescence |
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Finely hispid (setose). |
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kidney-shaped 2 |
= reniform |
solid shape |
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Thickly elongate and arcuate, circular or compressed-circular in transverse section, each end bluntly rounded; like the generalized shape of a human kidney. |
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villous |
= shaggy, villose |
pubescence |
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Bearing sparse, long, slender, soft, capillate trichomes that are not intertwined. See also villosulous. |
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awned |
= aristate, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more awns (aristae, bristles, setae). |
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membrane |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively thin layer of tissue that covers or separates other, different tissue(s) and/or empty space(s). |
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calcarate |
= spurred |
base |
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Having a relatively slender protrusion resembling a spur. |
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obturbinate |
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solid shape |
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Inversely turbinate (top-shaped). See also pyriform (pear-shaped). |
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perianth |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, all the sterile, primary, lateral organs (tepals, or sepals and/or petals) of a flower; inserted upon the floral axis immediately beneath (proximal to) the reproductive organs (androecium and/or gynoecium) and surrounding them, often protectively; lacking in some taxa; the individual members typically laminar and more or less foliaceous; widely regarded as consisting of the evolutionarily modified leaves of a fertile shoot; the constituent members undifferentiated with respect to one another, or else differentiated into more or less distinct floral envelopes (calyx and corolla), one or the other of which is deemed lacking in some taxa due to evolutionary reduction following differentiation. |
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prominulous |
< raised |
prominence |
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Diminutively prominent, protruding only slightly above the general level of the surrounding surface. |
