Flora of North America Glossary
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| Term | Synonyms | Category | Limitation | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| viscid 2 | < glutinous | texture | Sticky. | |
| viscidium pl. viscidia | STRUCTURE | A small, viscid, glandular body of rostellar origin that becomes connected with a pollinium caudicle, either directly or through an intervening stipe, by which the pollinium attaches to a pollinating insect; in Orchidaceae. | ||
| viscin | = elastoviscin | SUBSTANCE | A sticky, elastic material, especially that forming the threads that sometimes connect pollen grains. | |
| viviparous | reproduction | Producing sexually or asexually generated offspring that begin growth and development while borne upon the parent plant. | ||
| voluble | = twining | habit | axis | Coiling about other plants or objects during growth, thus achieving support. |
| waisted | solid shape | Constricted in width or breadth at or near the middle of its length. | ||
| wall (fruit, ovary, pollen, spore) | STRUCTURE | The exterior layer of tissue(s) enclosing anatomically distinct interior tissues and sometimes fluid and/or one or more cavities. | ||
| wand-like | = virgate | architecture | axis | Long, slender, unbranched, and more or less straight. |
| warty | = tuberculate, tuberculose, verrucose | relief | Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. | |
| watery | texture | Liquid and weakly cohesive, flowing freely; like water. This term often implies also transparency. | ||
| wavy | = undulate | margin | Having regular, curved, smoothly connected, alternating, wave-like deviations upward and downward from the general plane of the structure. | |
| waxen 1 | = ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose | coating | Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. | |
| waxen 2 | = ceraceous, cereous, waxy | texture | Having the consistency of wax. | |
| waxy 1 | = ceraceous, cereous, waxen; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose | coating | Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. | |
| waxy 2 | = ceraceous, cereous, waxy | texture | Having the consistency of wax. | |
| weak | texture | Very pliable and unresilient. | ||
| wedge-shaped 1 | = cuneate, obtriangular | base | laminar structure | Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
| wedge-shaped 2 | = cuneate, obtriangular | plane shape | Inversely triangular; like the outline of the broad lateral face of a wedge, broadest at the apex. See also obdeltate. | |
| weeping | architecture | plant | Having elongate, flexible, pendent branches. | |
| wheel-shaped | = rotate | solid shape | perianth, calyx, corolla | Having a very short, cupulate tube and a broad, divergent to divaricate limb; resembling a wheel when viewed from the distal end. |
| whip-like | = flagelliform | solid shape | Very slender, terete, generally straight, and apparently supple. | |
| whorl | = cycle, series, verticil | STRUCTURE | A set of three or more lateral structures that are inserted around an axis at the same level. | |
| …whorled | = …cyclic, …seriate, …verticillate | arrangement | Disposed in the number of whorls (cycles, series, verticils) indicated by the prefix; as in three-whorled, 1-whorled. | |
| whorled | = cyclic, seriate, verticillate | arrangement | Disposed along the axis in groups of three or more, the members of each group (cycle, series, verticil, whorl) inserted around the axis at the same level. | |
| wind-pollinated | = anemophilous | reproduction | plant, strobilus, flower | Having the pollen normally transported between strobili or flowers by air currents. |
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