Category: M

  • Manicate

    With a hairy covering that is so dense and interwoven that it can be peeled off in one. With a dense covering of hair that can be peeled off in its entirety.  

  • Mangrove

    Coastal swamp of the tropics that is regularly inundated by tidal salt water; A tree species adapted to swamps like this (e.g. with breathing roots). Trees or shrubs tolerant of salt or brackish water and water-saturated soil, growing in sheltered sites along coastal areas, often with stilt roots or root structures that stick up through…

  • Mammiform

    Conical, with a rounded apex. Breast-like, conical with a rounded tip.  

  • Mammate

    Conical, with a rounded apex.  

  • Mamillate, mammillate

    With nipple-like or breast-like processes.  

  • Malpighian hair

    Short T-shaped hair with the base stalk attached somewhere near the middle of the upper part and tapering towards the ends [unusual term].  

  • Mallee

    Mallee

    Growth form in which several main stems sprout from a lignotuber; A vegetation type that occurs in semi-arid areas of southern Australia.  

  • Malleate

    As if hammered, with many shallow circular depressions [rare term].  

  • Malacophyllous

    With fleshy leaves.  

  • Magenta

    (Colour) dark purplish red.