Category: F
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Filiform
Threadlike, that is elongated, slender and cylindroidal. In biology, pert, to a growth that is uniform along the inoculation line in stab or streak cultures.
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Filantherous
(Of stamens) with distinct filament and anther(s).
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Filamentous
Formed of thin fibres; Made up of long, interwoven or irregularly placed threadlike structures.
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Filament
A stalk that bears an anther, usually distinct from the connective. The stalk of a stamen, that is, the part that supports the anther. The stalk of a stamen below the point of attachment to the anther. The stalk like part of the stamen that supports the anther. The slender portion of a stamen supporting…
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Fil
(Abbreviation in author citation) from the Latin filius meaning ‘son’.
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Fig
The fruit (really a syconium) of Ficus species; also used to indicate a whole plant of Ficus, as in fig-tree. That fresh figs are pear-shaped is probably little known in North America, where most people are familiar only with the dried, scrunched-up version of the fruit. Usually imported from the Mediterranean, the fig takes its…
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Fide
From the Latin ‘with faith’, used when quoting another person’s observation; according to.
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Fiddlehead
(In ferns) the coiled immature leaf with apex at the centre, usually of an emerging fern leaf.
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Fibro-vascular veins
(In anatomy) mixed vessels and fibres.
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Fibrillose (stringy)
With many fine fibres. Composed of parallel fibers, especially of the cap in some species of mushrooms. (Of surface of cap or stem) Having visible fibrils, often differently colored than the surface below them.