Category: B
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Barb
Hooked hair or prickle, pointing backwards.
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Banner
The uppermost/posterior petal of a papilionaceous flower. Synonyms: standard (which is preferred) or vexillum. The top-most petal in flowers of the family Fabaceae/Faboideae. The upper petal in a pea flower, or the three erect petals of an iris flower. The usually erect, spreading upper petal in many flowers of the bean family (Fabaceae).
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Banded
Marked with colour stripes. Marked with differently coloured stripes.
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Bamboo
A group of woody evergreen plants in Gramineae/Poaceae; also the woody culm of such plants. Considering its importance as both a foodstuff (in the form of bamboo shoots) and as a construction material (especially in Indonesia, where it has been used to make blinds, canes, water pipes, hats, ladders, scaffolds, kitchen pots, spears, paper, and…
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Balusterform
Dilated, referring to the filament collar in members of the tribe Senecioneae in the Compositae/Asteraceae.
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Balsamiferous
Balsam-producing.
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Balsam
Resin mixed with volatile oil. An aromatic resin produced by a tree, for example balsam of Peru and balsam of Tolu, which contain appreciable amounts of benzoic acid, cinnamic acid, or both, or their esters. The fragrant gum or sap of a plant or tree. A soothing ointment. A resinous semi-solid mass or viscous liquid…
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Balausta
Many-celled, many-seeded indehiscent fruit with tough pericarp (such as pomegranate).
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Balanoform hairs
(In grasses) microhairs with a broad, blunt apex.
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Baculiform
Stick-shaped, rod-like.