crown-shaped |
= coroniform |
solid shape |
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Shortly and broadly tubular overall, circumferentially continuous at the base, distally so or not; like a monarch's crown. |
pseudoterminal |
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position |
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Only apparently terminal; originally subapical but displaced toward the apex by differential growth during development. |
lentiginous |
= dusty, lentiginose |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of minute, dry, macroscopically indistinguishable particles. See also pulverulent (granuliferous, powdery), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
trapeziform |
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plane shape |
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Four-sided and either asymmetrical or bilaterally symmetrical like a triangle truncated distally perpendicular to its central axis. |
epipetalous |
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position |
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Upon the petals, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
mealy 1 |
= farinaceous; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of or bearing minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. |
flabelliform |
= fan-shaped, flabellate |
solid shape |
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Strongly compressed, broadest near the apex and attenuate to a narrow base, plaited longitudinally, the alternating folds radiating from the base, the whole basically triangular in broad aspect; like a partially expanded folding fan. |
scutelliform |
= platter-shaped, scutellate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oval faces, shallowly concave-convex; like a serving platter. See also scutate (buckler-shaped, scutiform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
bullate |
= blistered, puckered, pustulate |
relief |
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Having relatively coarse, irregularly disposed, rounded protrusions or convexities resembling blisters. See also papillate (papillose). |
inframedial |
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position |
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Slightly below the middle of the structure in point. |
superficial |
= surficial |
insertion |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
resinous 1 |
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coating |
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Of liquid or hardened resin. |
size |
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CHARACTER |
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Nature as to absolute or comparative extent in any one dimension or in area or volume. |
cereous 1 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
haustorium pl. haustoria |
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STRUCTURE |
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An absorbing and anchoring organ, often root-like, excrescent from a vegetative part of a parasitic or hemiparasitic plant, by which the plant communicates intimately with and derives sustenance and support from its host plant, into whose tissues the haustorium intrudes. |
piliferous |
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apex |
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Having a distinct, fine, weak, hair-like portion or protrusion. |
coleorhiza |
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STRUCTURE |
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A sheath-like structure enclosing the radicle (embryonic root) in an embryo; esp. in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
cereous 2 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
pilose |
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pubescence |
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Bearing relatively sparse, soft, slender, more or less erect capillate trichomes. See also pilosulous. |
arcuate 1 |
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course |
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Curving more or less regularly in one direction. |
lanulose |
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pubescence |
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Finely lanate. |
throat 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The fully connate portion of the limb of a disc floret, proximal to the lobes (distinct distal portions of the petals); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
embryo sac |
< megagametophyte |
STRUCTURE |
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The multinucleate generative cell of an ovule, within which fertilization and zygote formation occur; resulting from meiotic division of a megaspore mother cell within the nucellus, and thus genetically haploid; its contents generally considered to represent an evolutionarily reduced gametophyte. |
feminine |
= female |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
scabridulous |
= scabrellate, scabrellous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |