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pergamentaceous |
= parchment-like |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
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cristate |
= crested |
apex |
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Having a laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched protrusion. |
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prominent |
< raised |
prominence |
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Protruding above the general level of the surrounding surface. See also prominulous. |
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fruity |
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odor |
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Sweetly to pungently fragrant and reminiscent of fruit. |
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spiral 3 |
= helical |
course |
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Curving with constant or regularly increasing radius from one end to the other through three dimensions. |
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helical 3 |
= spiral |
course |
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Curving with constant or regularly increasing radius from one end to the other through three dimensions. |
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tongue-shaped |
= lingulate |
solid shape |
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Broadly elongate and compressed, one broad face more or less plane and the other convex, the edges rounded between them; like a tongue. |
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lineate 1 |
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coloration |
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Having very narrow, straight, clear or colored lines that contrast with the ground color. |
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vascular bundle |
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STRUCTURE |
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A discrete strand of conducting tissues (xylem, phloem) and associated cells (e.g., cambium) within a stem or other axial structure. |
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aromatic |
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odor |
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Having a distinct odor; usually restricted to pleasant odors. |
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male cone |
= microstrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A cone (strobilus) whose fertile organs are all microsporophylls. |
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chewed |
= ruminate |
relief |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
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…parted |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted. |
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corrugate 2 |
= rugose, wrinkled |
relief |
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Having irregular, narrow ridges or creases, the intervening areas flat or only slightly concave or convex, appearing overall as though crumpled and then spread out. See also rugulose. |
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diffuse-porous |
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porosity |
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Homogeneously porous, the vessels not differentially disposed by size or number. |
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receptacular bract |
= pale, palea, palet |
STRUCTURE |
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A small papery (chartaceous) to membranous bract borne on the compound receptacle (torus) of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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epipterous |
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solid shape |
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Alate with a single terminal wing. |
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scar |
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FEATURE |
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A discontinuity in surface color and/or relief due to abscission of a structure formerly borne there. |
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spathe |
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STRUCTURE |
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A usually relatively large, sometimes showy, foliose bract subtending and sometimes partially enclosing an inflorescence, esp. a spadicate one; in Liliidae (monocotyledons). |
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hair |
= capillus; > glochid, glochidium; < cilium, trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A hair-like trichome. |
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striate 2 |
= streaked; < lineate |
relief |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |
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tertiary vein |
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STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to the third order of vasculature in a leaf or other basically laminar structure, except when that is the ultimate order (consisting of veinlets); branching from a primary or secondary vein. See also costa, lateral vein, primary vein, rib, secondary vein, veinlet. |
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lobed |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobate, parted, partite, segmented |
plane 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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bisexual |
= hermaphroditic |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
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navicular |
= boat-shaped, cymbiform |
solid shape |
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Like the generalized form of a boat hull, the walls relatively thin to moderately thick, the interior essentially empty and open along one side. |
