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Cúspide
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Punta muy aguda, corta y abrupta, usualmente localizada en el ápice de una hoja u otro órgano. |
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Cuticle
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A waxy layer of the leaf blade that covers the epidermal cells. |
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Cuticle
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A waxy layer of the leaf blade that covers the epidermal cells. The cuticle is sometimes modified to forma papillae. |
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Cuticular ridge
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A raised ridge that parallels or curves around the stomatal crypts. |
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Cuticular wax
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Flakes found on the abaxial leaf blade surface that look like they could have been formed by shedding of the cuticle. |
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Cyanobacteria
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Blue-green bacteria resembling eukaryotic algae in many ways. |
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Cyathiform
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Cup-shaped. |
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Cyathium (plural = cyathia)
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An inflorescence consisting of several naked staminate flowers accompanied by usually one naked pistillate flower and subtended and mostly enclosed by a cup-shaped involucre, characteristic of Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae). |
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Cylindrical fruit
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A fruit that is much longer than it is broad. |
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Cylindrical fruit
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A fruit that is much longer than it is broad. |
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Cymbiform
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Boat-shaped. |
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Cyme
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A determinate inflorescence in which growth of the central axis is terminated by a flower that opens first and each branch or pair of branches subtending this flower then is terminated by a single flower. This pattern, when repeated several times, often results in a somewhat flat-topped inflorescence. |
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Cymose
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Like a cyme. |
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Cymule
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A small cyme. |
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Cypsela (plural = cypselae)
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A dry, indehiscent fruit derived from an inferior, bicarpellate ovary; e.g., in Asteraceae. Similar to an achene, but derived from an inferior ovary and attached to the fruit wall throughout, i.e., not at a single place as in an achene. |
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Cystolith
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A crystal typically of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) located in the epidermal cells at the surface of leaves of certain plants (e.g., Acanthaceae) and appearing as a light-colored streak or protuberance. |
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DAP
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Diámetro de un tronco de un árbol que se toma a la altura del pecho (aproximadamente a 1.3 m desde la superficie del suelo). |
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DBH
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Diameter of a tree trunk measured at breast height (i.e., 1.3 ms above the ground). |
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Decidua, deciduo
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Término que se aplica cuando un órgano se desprende en una determinada estación del año o en un estadío durante el ciclo de vida de una planta; por ejemplo, las hojas que se caen durante la estación seca o los pétalos que se desprenden después de la floración. En el caso de las hojas, el término opuesto es sempevirente. |
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Deciduous
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A process in which certain structures of a plant, e.g., leaves, fall in response to enviromental changes. |
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Declinada, declinado
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Curvado hacia abajo. Por ejemplo, los filamentos de algunas especies de Lamiaceae. |
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Declinate
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Curved downward; e.g., the filaments of some species of Lamiaceae. |
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Decompound
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More than once-compound. |
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Decompuesta, decompuesto
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Compuesto más de una vez. |
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Decumbent
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Growing horizontally along the ground but with the apex ascending or erect. |
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