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Spatulate
Shaped like a small spatula: oblong, with an extended basal part. A botanical term meaning “spreading” or “trowel-shaped”. Spoon-shaped, oblong with an extended basal part. In the shape of a knife rounded on the end, and tapering toward the base. Shaped like a traditional spatula, that is, rather narrowly wedge-shaped but rounded at the broad…
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Spathulate
Shaped like a small spatula: oblong, with an extended basal part; spatulate is the preferred spelling.
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Spatheole
(In Gramineae/Poaceae) The bladeless sheath subtending the inflorescence; The modified leaf sheath encasing part of the inflorescence.
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Spathella
(In Podostemaceae) a closed membranous sac enveloping the immature flower; Lemma or sometimes glume [old-fashioned usage, not recommended].
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Spathe
A large sheathing bract, usually either the prophyll or a peduncular bract, surrounding the inflorescence or spadix. A large, usually solitary bract subtending and often enclosing an inflorescence; the term is used only in the monocotyledons. A large bract ensheathing an inflorescence or its peduncle. Large, often colored or leafy bract surrounding the spadix in…
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Spathaceous
Resembling, or with the function of, a pathe (e.g. large bract(s) enclosing the flower(s)).
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Span
(Old measurement) about 22.9 cm or 9 inches [old-fashioned term]. The distance from one fixed point to another, as the distance, when the hand is fully expanded, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger.
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Spadix
Unbranched inflorescence with fleshy or thickened axis in which the flowers are (partly) sunken (as in Araceae). The thick or fleshy flower spike of certain plants, usually surrounded by or subtended by a bract, as in the Araceae. Fleshy flower spike bearing many tiny florets; the type of flower spike found in members of the…
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Sorus (plural sori)
(Of pteridophytes) structure bearing or containing groups of sporangia. A cluster of spore-bearing sacs (sporangia) on the underside of a fern leaf.
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Sorosis
Fleshy multiple fruit arising from the ovaries of many different flowers (as in mulberry, breadfruit or pineapple).
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