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Setaceous
Bristle-like, narrow and stiff.
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Seta (plural setae)
A bristle or stiff hair. Sterile, thick-walled, pointed, stiff cells on a fruit body, usually having colored walls; found in ascomycetes and basidiomycetes.
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Serrulate
Minutely serrate. Diminutive of the last. Finely saw-toothed.
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Serried
Close together in rows or ranks.
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Serrate
Toothed like a saw, with regular acute and angled teeth pointing towards the apex. Toothed along the margin with sharp, forward pointing teeth. Toothed so as to resemble a saw; with regular, asymmetric teeth pointing forward. Lined with small notches, like a saw blade. With coarse saw-like teeth that point forward. Saw-toothed, with sharp tips…
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Serotiny
Seeds staying within a cone or fruit until the passing of a fire releases them. A type of dehiscence in which a cone or fruit only releases the seeds after fire.
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Serotinous
Retaining seeds within a cone or fruit until the passing of a fire releases them.
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Series
Subdivision below the rank of genus and above the rank of species. A group of plants raised from seed and thus not genetically identical but sufficiently alike to be treated as a garden variety, for example most cultivars of annuals and vegetables. A group of plants developed by a plant breeder and raised from seed…
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Sericeous
Silky, with closely appressed soft straight hairs and with a shiny silky sheen. Silky; the hairs long, fine, and appressed.
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Serial bud arrangement
With the buds arranged vertically one above the other in the axil of a leaf.
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