Category: S

(Of an ovary) when the sepals, petals and stamens are inserted below the ovary; = hypogynous; When the receptacle bearing the calyx, corolla and stamens is expanded into a hypanthium. A term used in exercise to describe one body part’s position in relation to another. Superior means above. Above, in relation to another body structure,…

(In nomenclature) name for a taxon for which an earlier legitimate name already exists.  

Those leaves adapted to intense light.  

A shallow furrow in the cerebral cortex separating adjacent convolutions. A groove or fold, especially between the gyri in the brain. Small groove or furrow on the surface of an organ (e.g., sulcus that separates convolutions on the surface of the cerebral hemispheres). One of the many clefts or infoldings of the surface of the…

Grooved, furrowed. Furrowed with longitudinal lines. Deeply channelled.  

Spread throughout with colour.  

(Adject.) as a suffrutex. Plants woody at the base but herbaceous above.  

Subshrub; Often, more specifically, a plant producing annual shoots from a woody subterranean base.  

Like a subshrub, somewhat shrubby. Slightly shrubby; a herb that becomes somewhat woody at base.  

Producing suckers.