Category: B
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Barren
Sterile, not producing seed. Unable to produce young; sterile.
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Barrel-shaped
(Of 3-dimensional shapes) resembling a barrel, i.e. shortly and broadly cylindrical, but tapering slightly at base and apex.
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Barred
Marked with closely parallel lines.
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Bark
Outermost layer of stems and roots in woody plants; all tissue outside the cambium. Outer surface of the trunk of a tree or woody shrub. They are all the tissues out side the cambium. The outside covering of a woody stem. The protective surface layer of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub,…
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Barbulae
Outgrowths on the margin of a seed’s wings or in the throat of the corolla [unusual term].
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Barbellulate
Barbellate with minute hairs or barbs.
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Barbellate
Shortly barbed; in Compositae/Asteraceae used of spreading or upward-pointing pappus hairs which have free cell apices shorter than the diameter of the main axis. Hairs with barbs down the sides. Beset with short, stiff hairs, as is often the case with the pappus bristles in Compositae.
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Barbel, barbella
One of the stiff trichomes composing a pappus.
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Barbed
With rigid points or bristles pointing backwards. With a backward-facing tip; resembling a fishhook.
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Barbate
Bearded; with a group of long hairs. Bearded in lines, spots, or tufts; not when the whole surface is hairy—then the part is truly bearded.