Category: B
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Bibracteate
With two bracts.
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Biauriculate
With two ear-like appendages.
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Biarticulate
Jointed in two places; (Of a loment, a flat legume fruit) with two segments, divided by a sharp constriction of the fruit. A muscle that spans two joints.
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Biangulate
With two angles or corners.
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Bi-
Prefix meaning two- (e.g. bicucullate, with two hoods).
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Berry
An indehiscent simple fruit with one to many seeds immersed in a fleshy pulp, supported by an endocarp less than 2 mm thick, the pericarp not differentiated internally by a hardened endocarp or airspace (Spjut, 1994). The most generalized type of fleshy fruit, derived from a single pistil, fleshy throughout, and containing usually several or…
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Beneath
[Term with several meanings] can stand for proximal (lower on the plant) or abaxial (away from the axis, lower surface).
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Beltian bodies
Food bodies for ants located at the leaflet apices of some species of Acacia.
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Bell-shaped
3-dimensional shape of a hollow cup-like structure with either parallel sides or gently widening sides, and widening at the mouth. Having a raised rounded center with margin becoming straight or upturned slightly, resembling a church bell, campanulate.
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Bearded
Of a 3-dimensional object, with a tuft of long hairs on one part. Bearing a tuft or ring of rather long hairs. With long or stiff hairs. Covered with a growth of fine hairs.