Category: B
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Beard
A tuft of long hairs.
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Beaked
With a beak, with a long slender projection; also rostrate. Surmounted by a long and narrow tip.
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Beak
A slender projection, like the beak of a bird (e.g. persistent style base on fruit); also rostellum; In Compositae, the elongated apex of an achene, beneath the pappus, forming an often slender neck; also rostrum. A terminal projection, for example, on a fruit, sometimes formed by a style that is persistent in fruit. Effectively the…
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Beaded
(Of hairs) with regular narrowing and widening, making it look like a string of beads. With regular narrowing and widening, making it look like a string of beads. Referring to disjointed colonies along the inoculation line in a streak or stab culture.
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Bauplan
A German term for the vegetative architectural plan (e.g. the sympodium).
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Bathyphyll
In climbing ferns, one of the fronds formed near the base of the plant, usually smaller and more dissected.
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Bast
Phloem; Fibrous tissues for the purpose of mechanical support.
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Basitonic
[Obscure term with several meanings] Branching type, where the shoots near the base show the greatest development; Flowering seasonal shoots which produce no leaves; Fruiting surface on the interior of the canopy; In orchids, with the rostellum or viscidium associated with the base of the anther.
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Basiscopic
(In ferns) towards the base of the frond.
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Basis
The base.