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  • Hispidulous

    Minutely hispid.  

  • Hispid

    Hispid

    With long stiff hairs or bristles, more sharply bristly than hirsute. Many, but not all, early authors (including Linnaeus) also thought the hairs of hispid plants to be fragile.  

  • Hirtellous

    Softly or minutely hirsute or hairy.  

  • Hirsute

    Hirsute

    With rather coarse stiff hairs. With rough or coarse, more or less erect hairs. With a lot of hair.  

  • Hippocrepiform

    Horseshoe-shaped.  

  • Hip

    (In Rosa) the ‘false fruit’ developed from the swollen hypanthium. A vase-like leathery hypanthium containing several achenes; restricted to the rose. A fleshy, berrylike fruit (as in some members of the Rose Family). A false fruit developed from the hypanthium (floral) in Rosa (Rosaceae). The lateral prominence of the pelvis from the waist to the…

  • Hilum

    Hilum

    The scar left on the seed from its attachment point to the placenta. The scar of the seed at its point of attachment. In botany, the central part in a starch grain, surrounded by layers of starch. A hollow where blood vessels or nerve fibres enter an organ such as a kidney or lung. An…

  • Hilar

    Pertaining to the hilum. Pertaining to the indented surface of the lung. Concerning or belonging to the hilum.  

  • Hexaploid

    With six sets of chromosomes.  

  • Hexandrous

    With six stamens.  

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