Category: S
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Strophiolate
With strophioles.
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Strobilus (plural strobili)
An inflorescence largely made up of overlapping scales; (In pteridophytes and gymnosperms) spore-bearing spike covered in imbricate reduced leaves, the cone scales. A cluster of sporophylls or ovule-bearing scales on an axis, such as in a cone.
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Strobiliform
Cone-shaped.
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Strobilate
(Of inflorescences) when resembling a cone by being covered in imbricate scales.
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Strigulose
With short stiff hairs lying close to the surface.
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Strigose
With sharp stiff hairs lying ± parallel to and close to the surface. (The meaning of this term has varied over time. To Linnaeus, it meant the same as hispid; De Candolle regarded it to mean hair-like scales; but since Lindley (1832) the definition as given here is common). Hairs sharp, appressed, rigid, and often…
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Strigillose
With small, sharp, straight bristles, hispidulous.
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Striation
A fine groove. The state of having stripes or lines; any structure with linear markings.
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Striate
With parallel longitudinal grooves. Having lines or minute grooves; common in mushrooms on the upper surface of the cap near its margin, or on the stem. Marked with fine, longitudinal lines, grooves, furrows, or streaks. Marked with longitudinal, slender grooves. Ridged or fluted down the length, as in Sisyrinchium striatum.
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Striae
Slightly sunken stripes or lines. Stretch-marks seen in the skin, common in adolescent boys and girls owing to stretching of the skin by rapid growth (striae distensae). In boys, striae occur around the shoulders and thighs; in girls the breasts and hips are affected. In both sexes horizontal striae on the back may be mistaken…