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tailed 2 |
= caudate |
base |
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With one or more relatively slender, retrorse basal enations or appendages. |
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tapered |
= attenuate |
plane shape |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter from one end to the other. |
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tapered |
= attenuate |
solid shape |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter from one end to the other. |
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tapeworm-shaped |
= taeniate |
solid shape |
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Slender, elongate, basically cylindric or compressed-cylindric with shallow, narrow, more or less regular constrictions along its length, the whole apparently segmented and straight or variously curved. |
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taproot |
< primary root |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary root that remains dominant through the life of the plant as the main axis of a vertically oriented system that penetrates the substrate to a considerable depth. |
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taprooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Having a taproot. See also diffuse-rooted, fibrous-rooted. |
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tartar-like |
= tartareous |
relief |
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Rough and crumbling spontaneously, becoming erose. |
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tartareous |
= tartar-like |
relief |
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Rough and crumbling spontaneously, becoming erose. |
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teardrop-shaped 1 |
= lacrimate |
plane shape |
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Broadest just below the middle, broadly rounded to the base, and acutely attenuate to the apex; like the stylized lateral outline of a teardrop. |
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teardrop-shaped 2 |
= lacrimiform |
solid shape |
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Transversely round and broadest just below the middle, broadly rounded to the base and acutely attenuate to the apex. |
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ten-… |
= deca… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by ten entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in ten-carpeled, ten-stamened, ten-winged. |
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tendril |
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STRUCTURE |
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A slender stem branch, modified leaf, or portion of a leaf that twines about a supporting structure. |
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tepal |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any member of an undifferentiated perianth; may be green and foliaceous or colored and petaloid, distinct or else connate with one or more others, and/or free or else adnate with one or more other floral structures. |
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…tepaled |
= …tepalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth |
Having the number of tepals indicated by the prefix; as in six-tepaled. |
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…tepalous |
= …tepaled |
architecture |
flower, perianth |
Having the number of tepals indicated by the prefix; as in hexatepalous. |
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terete |
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solid shape |
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Elongate and transversely round, gradually attenuate from base to apex; attenuate-cylindric or attenuate-tubular, broadest at the base. See also obterete. |
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tergeminate |
= trigeminous, trijugate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with three orders of leaflets, each order bifoliolate. |
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terminal |
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insertion |
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Apical and with the same developmental axis as the whole, of which it is the distalmost portion or appendage. |
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terminal |
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position |
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Apical and with the same developmental axis as the whole, of which it is the distalmost portion or appendage. |
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ternate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Palmate with three leaflets. |
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…ternate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order ternate; as in biternate, thrice-ternate. |
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terrestrial |
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habit |
plant |
Growing upon the ground, usually rooted in it. |
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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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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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tessellate 2 |
= checkered |
relief |
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Having a pattern of regularly disposed squares marked by raised or depressed vasculature. |