Category: V
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Verrucate, verrucose
Warty, with little excrescences or bumps (verrucose is preferred).
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Verruca
Wart, small conical bump. A wart or one of the wart-like elevations on the endocardium in various types of endocarditis.
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Vernicose
With a very shiny surface, as if varnished.
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Vernicifluous
Causing a varnish-like sap to flow [obscure term].
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Vernation
Folding of leaves in bud (aestivation is similar but for sepals and petals). The methodical arrangement of leaves in their buds.
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Vernacular name
Name of a plant in any language, locally used name as opposed to scientific name.
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Vermilion
Scarlet, brilliant red approaching orange.
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Vermiform
Shaped like a worm: cylindrical and rather thick, bent in different places.
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Vergens (ad)
Similar to, quite close to.
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Ventricose
Fat, swollen; Swollen or bulging unequally on one side (usually near the middle). (Of cystidia or stem) Swollen in the middle and tapered at either end.