Month: March 2020
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Muscariform
Shaped like a brush or broom, with an axis that bears at its apex a series of thin slender appendages [unusual term].
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Murus
(In pollen) the ridges separating the empty spaces.
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Muriform
Resembling courses of bricks; with bricklike markings, mostly employed for epidermal cell shapes [unusual term].
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Muriculate
Minutely muricate.
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Muricate
Rough with short hard pointed protuberances. Beset with short, hard points.
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Muri
(Of spore wall) ridges.
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Multiseriate
(Of a structure) arranged in many rows (e.g. ovules on a placenta).
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Multiple fruit
Fruit formed from a whole inflorescence, often incorporating bracts, such as pineapple, hop or mulberry; Fruit derived from a gynoecium with more than one carpel.
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Multiplanar
(Of divided leaves) with the lobes or divisions held in several planes.
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Multifid
Split into numerous lobes. Many-cut.