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soft |
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texture |
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Yielding under slight pressure. |
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firm |
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texture |
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Yielding under only moderately strong pressure; only slightly deformable without internal structural disruption. |
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hard |
= indurate(d) |
texture |
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Yielding only under strong pressure; not deformable without internal structural disruption. See also callose (callous), hard-coated (corticate), hard-stemmed (sclerocaulous). |
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indurate(d) |
= hard |
texture |
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Yielding only under strong pressure; not deformable without internal structural disruption. See also callose (callous), corticate (hard-coated), sclerocaulous (hard-stemmed). |
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rhytidomal |
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insertion |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
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rhytidomal |
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position |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
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intravaginal |
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insertion |
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Within the leaf sheath. |
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intravaginal |
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position |
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Within the leaf sheath. |
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subterranean |
= hypogeal, hypogeous |
location |
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Within the ground, beneath its surface. |
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hypogeal |
= hypogeous, subterranean |
location |
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Within the ground, beneath its surface; esp. of cotyledons following seed germination. |
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hypogeous |
= hypogeal, subterranean |
location |
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Within the ground, beneath its surface; esp. of cotyledons following seed germination. |
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axillary |
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insertion |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
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axillary |
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position |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
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xylary |
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position |
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Within or otherwise directly associated with the wood. |
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calyculate 1 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
With the involucre subtended by a calyculus; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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caudate 2 |
= tailed |
base |
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With one or more relatively slender, retrorse basal enations or appendages. |
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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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valvate 4 |
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dehiscence |
fruit |
With longitudinal segments of the wall (valves) separating partly or wholly from one another, spreading outward from the base or apex, and sometimes falling away. |
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fleeting |
= fugacious |
duration |
structure |
Wilting or withering very shortly after emergence, soon becoming inconspicuous and falling away or disintegrating. |
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fugacious |
= fleeting |
duration |
structure |
Wilting or withering very shortly after emergence, soon becoming inconspicuous and falling away or disintegrating. |
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valvate 1 |
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aestivation |
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Whorled and with members not overlapping, adjacent members laterally contiguous at their margins. |
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inferior 2 |
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position |
ovary |
Wholly enclosed by a floral tube casing, the distal portions of the perianth and/or androecium thus arising from its apex. |
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glaucous |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Whitish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, whitish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also caesious, glaucescent. |
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parchment-like |
= pergamentaceous |
texture |
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Very thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like parchment. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), membranaceous (membranous). |
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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). |