excavate(d) |
= hollow |
architecture |
axis |
Having pith tissue absent or disintegrating prior to axial maturity, resulting in an uninterrupted cavity running the length of the axis. Semantically, this term and its synonym refer to the axis, not to the pith itself, although the latter application has been traditional. |
virgate |
= wand-like |
architecture |
axis |
Long, slender, unbranched, and more or less straight. |
spiny 1 |
= echinate, spinose |
architecture |
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Bearing spines. |
…ciliate |
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architecture |
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Bearing the number of cilia indicated by the prefix. |
barbellate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbels. |
veined |
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architecture |
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Having one or more orders of evident vasculature. |
bulbose |
= bulbous |
architecture |
plant |
Growing from and/or bearing bulbs. |
ribbed 1 |
= costate |
architecture |
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Having one or more ribs (costae). |
trabeculate |
< septate |
architecture |
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Having one or more trabeculae. |
…cephalous |
= …headed |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Having the number of heads (capitula) indicated by the prefix; as in monocephalous, tricephalous, polycephalous. |
…palmate |
= …digitate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order palmate; as in bipalmate. |
inflorescence 1 |
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architecture |
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Mode or progressive pattern of bearing flowers; most appropriately described using adjectival terms. |
sulcate |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, grooved, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (sulci). |
single-leafleted |
= one-leafleted, unifoliolate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Structurally compound but with only one leaflet, whose nature (as a leaflet, not a leaf) is revealed by an evident articulation with the petiole, this condition presumably derived by evolutionary reduction from a multifoliolate precursor. |
laminate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having an expanded, more or less planate, distal portion (lamina or blade). |
fasciculate 1 |
= bundled (not recommended), fascicled |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |
wingless 2 |
= exalate |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Lacking lateral lobes or enations that resemble sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
hypostom(at)ic |
= hypostomatous |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having stomata on only the abaxial surface. |
twisted |
= contorted |
architecture |
axis |
Having a helical pattern of relief and/or coloration along its length. |
dichasiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound dichasia. See also cincinnate, cymose, cymulose, helicoid-cymose, monochasiate, scorpioid-cymose. |
ramose |
= branched, ramiform, ramous |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Dividing into or bearing branches. |
excurrent |
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architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Branching laterally such that the initial axis retains its prominence over the length of the structure, the succesive orders of branches relatively smaller. See also deliquescent. |
calyptrate |
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architecture |
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Having or constituting a calyptra. |
elaminate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Lacking an expanded, more or less planate, distal portion (lamina or blade). |
rubiaceous |
= paracytic |
architecture |
stomate |
Having one or more subsidiary cells to either side, all oriented parallel to its long axis. |