Category: R

Becoming reddish.  

Small and non-functional, arrested at an early stage of development. Imperfectly developed. Existing in a small form, or not developed fully. Underdeveloped or only partially formed, often referred to as vestigial or abortive.  

From the Latin rudus, meaning ‘old rubbish’, growing in waste places. A habitat which is dry, generally under-vegetated and often waste ground, usually colonised by pioneering or ‘weedy’ species of plants.  

(Usually of the base or apex of a plane shape) smoothly curved, without abrupt angles. The apex gently curved.  

(Plane shape) between oblong and rounded in outline.  

2-dimensional shape between oblong and rounded in outline, nearly round. Having a roundish outline.  

Wheel-shaped, usually of a corolla with a very short tube and spreading lobes. Having the parts flat and spreading or radiating like the spokes of a wheel. To move in a circle, or make something move in a circle.  

Beak-like extension. A projecting part of a bone or structure shaped like a beak. Structure that looks like a beak (e.g., sphenoidal rostrum, ridge on the lower part of the sphenoid bone of the skull). A beaklike projection, such as that on the sphenoid bone.  

Bearing a beak.