Category: D
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Drupelet
In multiple fruits, the single constituent drupes.
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Drupecetum
An aggregation of drupelets.
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Drupe
A stone fruit (e.g. plum, cherry), a fleshy indehiscent fruit with the seed(s) enclosed in a stony endocarp. A fleshy fruit with a firm endocarp (“pit” or “stone”) that permanently encloses the usually solitary seed, or with a portion of the endocarp separately enclosing each of two or more seeds. A fleshy or pulpy fruit…
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Drupaceous
Like a drupe, with the character of a drupe or producing fruit like a drupe. Partaking of the nature of a drupe.
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Dropper
A shoot from a bulb or corm that grows downwards and produces new bulbs or corms at its apex. A small glass or plastic tube with a rubber bulb at one end, used to suck up and expel liquid in drops. A tube, usually narrowed at one end, for dispensing drops of liquid. If water…
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Drooping
Bent downwards but not quite vertical.
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Drip-tip
The drawn-out tip of a leaf or leaflet from which water can drip. A tip of a leaf that is curved downwards and from which water can drip; common in tropical rainy climates.
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Drepanium
A sickle-shaped cyme in one plane, branching always to the same side, the axis often forming a coil.
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Downy
Covered in, or equipped with, soft thin hairs. Clothed with a coat of soft hairs. Having a coating of fine, short hairs, as on the skin of a peach.
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Down
Soft thin hairs.