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Scape
A leafless flower- or inflorescence-stalk arising from ground level, naked peduncle. A long flower-bearing stem or peduncle that arises from the ground. It is leafless, or the leaves are reduced to bracts. Leaflets peduncle arising from the ground; it may bear scales. A flower-bearing leafless stalk arising from the root. A peduncle when starting from…
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Scandent
Climbing. (Some authors use it for climbing without twining or the use of tendrils; I prefer it as a general term for climbing).
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Scalloped
Notched with regular rounded teeth.
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Scale
A small peltate scarious disc; Reduced leaf, usually sessile and scarious and seldom green; Cone scale, one of the overlapping structures (reduced leaves) on the cone or fruit of a gymnosperm; Nectary scale, outgrowth of carpel in flowers where nectar is produced (especially in Crassulaceae); A thin, dry, membranous body, commonly glabrous, resembling the scales…
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Scalariform
With ladder-like markings.
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Scabrous
Rough to the touch, with small pointed protrusions. Rough to the touch because of coarse stiff ascending hairs.
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Scabridulous
(Of indument) minutely scabrid.
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Scabrid
(Of indument) rough to the touch, usually from the presence of minute stiff hairs.
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Scabrate
Rough to the touch, with small pointed protrusions.
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Scaberulous
Slightly rough.
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