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Capsular fruit with three or more cells that breaks open when ripe (specialist term usually restricted to Euphorbiaceae).  

A region where the climate was relatively stable in a time of climatological changes elsewhere, so that many species were able to survive in that specific area while they disappeared elsewhere, allowing species that died out elsewhere to survive.  

(Of cells in surface tissue) refracting light.  

Curved backwards or downwards at a sharp angle. Turned down or curved backwards. Bent outward and downward. Sharply (not in a gradual curve) bent backwards, outwards or downwards. Abruptly bent or curved downward. Bent sharply downwards or backwards.  

(In aestivation) doubled back, the edges valvate and reflexed; (In leaflets of palms), Λ-shaped in cross-section.  

Subnormal in size or number. Label word used to describe a food that has reduced calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium by at least 25%. Must be accompanied by information about the comparison food.  

Bent or curved downward or backward. (Of cap margin or scales) Having an edge curved up and back.  

Bent back until the apex is below the base. Lying down or leaning backward.  

Turned or bent downwards (e.g. the fruiting pedicels of some Utricularia).