Category: C
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Cuneate
(Of a base of a flat object) tapering gradually, wedge-shaped. Obtriangular, i.e., wedge-shaped. Cuneiform, wedge-shaped.
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Cultrate
Shaped like a knife blade [unusual term, not recommended].
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Cultivated
Grown by humans in a modified environment. Domesticated for use in gardens, agriculture or forestry, with the implication that cultivation techniques appropriate to the plant have been worked out.
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Cultivar
A cultivated variety of a species. A horticultural variety originating from a cultivated plant, possessing interesting or important characters such as color, smell, taste, or disease resistance that make it worthy of distinction through naming. Horticultural term for a cultivated variety of plant that is distinct and is uniform and stable in its characteristics when…
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Cultigen
Plant or taxon known only in cultivation. A cultivated organism of species for which a wild ancestor is unknown.
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Cult
Cultivated. A system of beliefs and rituals based on dogma or religious teachings that are usually contrary to those established within or accepted by the community. A group of people with an obsessive commitment to an ideal or principle or to an individual personifying that ideal.
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Culm
Stem of a grass or sedge. The false stem of a grass.
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Cuff
(In Gramineae/Poaceae) the sleeve-shaped part where the lower glume margins almost meet. An inflatable ring put round the arm and inflated when blood pressure is being measured. An inflatable ring put round an endotracheal tube to close the passage. An anatomical structure encircling a part. An anatomical composition comprising muscle and tendon fibers that form…
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Cucullus
(In derived subfamilies of Apocynaceae), corona hood; strictly, only those species with lobes resembling a hood should be regarded as possessing a cucullus; (In the U.S.A.) used to describe the staminal corona lobes of Asclepias.
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Cucullate
Hooded (used especially for small organs).