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Flora
A book listing and describing the plants in an area. The plants occurring in a certain area. The microorganisms found in a given situation, e.g., reservoir flora (the microorganisms present in a given municipal water reservoir) or intestinal flora (the microorganisms found in the intestines). List of plants growing in a particular region. An aggregation…
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Flocculent
With small tufts of woolly hairs. Resembling tufts or shreds of cotton.
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Floccose
Covered with woolly tufts of hairs that rub off easily. With tufts of soft hairs that rub off easily. Bearing tufts of long, soft hair. (Of cap or stem) Composed of a cottony surface, resembling flannel. In biology, pert, to a growth consisting of short and densely but irregularly interwoven filaments.
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Flexuose, flexuous
Sinuous, bent alternately in different directions; flexuous is preferred. Gently bending in opposite directions. Bent alternatively in opposite directions, e.g. zigzag.
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Flexible
Bending easily but springing back to original shape. Easily bending but readily springing back to the original position.
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Fleshy
Succulent, swollen largely because of a high water content. Thick and juicy; succulent. Relatively soft, succulent; not dry or woody. Fleshy fruits are usually eaten by birds or other animals that disperse the seeds by discarding, regurgitating, or defecating them. (Of cap or stem) Soft, decaying readily.
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Flesh
The soft part, as the flesh of a melon. The inner tissue of the cap or stem when viewed with the naked eye. Tissue containing blood, forming the part of the body which is not skin, bone or organs. The soft tissues of the animal body, especially the muscles.
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Flaking off
Coming off in flat, irregularly shaped pieces.
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Flagellum (plural flagella)
(In Araceae) shoot with long slender internodes and reduced leaves; A sterile inflorescence modified as a climbing organ in the form of a barbed whip, found only in some species of Calamus (specialist term used in Palmae, 1986). A whip-like organ produced by some cells that makes motion possible. A tiny growth on a microorganism,…
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Flagelliform
Whip-like.
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