Category: S
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Stratified
Growing in distinct horizontal layers. Made of several layers.
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Strap-shaped
Narrow, with straight margins. (Of a leaf, petal, etc) flat, parallel-sided and blunt-ended.
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Stramineous
(Colour) straw-like, straw-coloured, very pale dull yellow.
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Straggling
Growing irregularly and untidily.
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Storey
Layer of rain-forest or other forest where vegetation seems to be layered (e.g. understorey, mid-storey or canopy).
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Stool shoot
A shoot or new stem/branch emerging from (near) the base of the plant, especially when the stem has been cut; Several stems arising from the same root.
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Stone
Hard endocarp of a drupe. Same as calculus. A measure of weight equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms. The inner fruit wall of a drupe, when of a hard, bony or woody nature. The stone incloses the seed. Plums and cherries have stones. Stones, also referred to as calculi, form as a consequence of…
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Stomium
Zone of dehiscence; for example, on a sporangium or on an anther.
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Stomatal subsidiary cells
Additional modified cells lying outside the guard cells of stomata.
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Stoloniferous
Bearing stolons; With runners or propagative shoots rooting at the tip to produce new plants. A plant that tends to form lateral roots, sometimes green and potentially stemming, sometimes blanched and tending to root from the nodes or both. Producing stolons or rooting shoots. Having stolons.