Category: U

  • Unilocular

    With a single locule or cavity. 1 chambered ovary. Containing just one compartment or loculus.  

  • Unijugate

    (Of a compound leaf) with a single pair of leaflets.  

  • Uniform

    Of one shape or form, all ± similar. The set of official clothes worn by a group of people such as the nurses in a hospital to identify them. Having the identical shape or form of other objects of the same class.  

  • Unifoliolate

    A compound leaf reduced to a single leaflet, as adduced by the lamina being articulated with the petiole or by the existence of a pulvinus at the apex and/or base of the petiole.  

  • Unifoliate

    With a single leaf; Sometimes used (wrongly) to stand for unifoliolate.  

  • Uniflorous

    With a single flower.  

  • Unifacial

    Oriented edgewise to the stem; With upper edge derived from upper surface, the other parts (most of the upper and all the lower surface) derived from the morphological underside of the leaf.  

  • Unicostate

    With a single main rib or vein, no other veins visible.  

  • Unicellular

    With a single cell (e.g. of hairs). Composed of a single cell. Referring to an organism formed of one cell. Describing organisms or tissues that consist of a single cell. Unicellular organisms include the protozoans, most bacteria, and some fungi.  

  • Unguiculate

    (Of a sepal or petal) clawed, narrowed into a petiole-like base. Having nails or claws.