Category: C
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Cob
The spike of maize, especially at the fruit stage.
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Coaxillary, co-axillary
Running with the main axis but separate from it.
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Coat
The successive layers of a bulb. To cover with a thin layer of flour, sugar, nuts, crumbs, Sesame or Poppy seed, Cinnamon, sugar or a few of the ground spices. A layer of material covering an organ or a cavity. Covering, especially a membrane that forms a wall. A covering or a layer in the…
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Coarctate
Closely pressed together.
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Coalescent
Partially, irregularly and superficially joined. Growing together. Partially and irregularly fused.
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Coalesce
Grow together. To unite into a whole. To combine, or to cause things to combine, into a single body or group.
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Cm
Centimeter.
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Clumped
A tight group. A mass of bacteria in solution; may be caused by an agglutination reaction.
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Club-shaped
With a slender base and a thickened apex.
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Closed spur
(Of orchids) a basal spur that is concealed within the mentum (e.g. in Dendrobium secundum).