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Cushion-like swelling (mostly used in mosses). A goitre. A swelling of the thyroid gland. Riedel’s struma is a rare chronic inflammation of the thyroid (see thyroiditis), which becomes firm and enlarged and is eventually destroyed.  

An aril or outgrowth of the outer seed integument near the hilum, glandular or fleshy and associated with animal dispersal. (Also called a caruncle, but a strophiole is an outgrowth from the raphe whereas the caruncle is next to the micropyle.  

With strophioles.  

Cone-shaped.  

(Of inflorescences) when resembling a cone by being covered in imbricate scales.      

With short stiff hairs lying close to the surface.  

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…

With small, sharp, straight bristles, hispidulous.  

A fine groove. The state of having stripes or lines; any structure with linear markings.