Category: G
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Glandular hair
A hair with a gland on its tip (through a hand lens, looking like a stalk with a blob on the end).
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Garden escape
A cultivated or ‘garden plant that occurs outside of gardens, which may or may not have become naturalised.
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Graves’ disease
The name given to the most common form of hyperthyroidism. Patients often have exophthalmos, a goiter, and sometimes raised red patches on the legs, known as pretibial myxedema. Same as exophthalmic goitre [Described 1835. After Robert James Graves (1796-1853), Irish physician at the Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, where he was responsible for introducing clinical ward…
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Gynobasic style
The situation in which the style arises in the centre at the base of the ovary as in many Lamiaceae, Boraginaceae and Allium (Amaryllidaceae).
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Grandiforus
Large-flowered.
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Gracilis
Slender and graceful. A thin muscle running down the inside of the leg from the top of the leg down to the top of the tibia. Slender, superficial muscle that runs along the inside of the thigh and functions in movement of the thigh and leg. A long slender muscle on the medial aspect of…
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Glochids
Barbed bristles on cacti.
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Globosus
Globe-shaped.
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Glaucus
Having a white or grayish powder or bloom.
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Glaber
Hairless, smooth.