Category: S
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Scented
Perfumed, smelling sweetly. With a strong pleasant smell.
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Scarlet
(Colour) vivid red with a touch of yellow.
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Scarious
Thin and dry, not green; also spelled scariose. Thin, dry, and no longer green (if formerly green). Dry, meager, membranous, non-green and translucent. Dry and papery, often translucent.
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Scapose
With a scape, bearing a scape; said of herbs that have a basal rosette and an inflorescence rising from the centre of the rosette on a leafless stalk. A leafless, flower-bearing peduncle arising directly from the ground. Bearing a flower or inflorescence on a leafless flowering stem.
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Scapigerous
Bearing a scape.
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Scapiform
Resembling a scape, a stem without leaves with flower(s) at the top.
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Scape
A leafless flower- or inflorescence-stalk arising from ground level, naked peduncle. A long flower-bearing stem or peduncle that arises from the ground. It is leafless, or the leaves are reduced to bracts. Leaflets peduncle arising from the ground; it may bear scales. A flower-bearing leafless stalk arising from the root. A peduncle when starting from…
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Scandent
Climbing. (Some authors use it for climbing without twining or the use of tendrils; I prefer it as a general term for climbing).
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Scalloped
Notched with regular rounded teeth.
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Scale
A small peltate scarious disc; Reduced leaf, usually sessile and scarious and seldom green; Cone scale, one of the overlapping structures (reduced leaves) on the cone or fruit of a gymnosperm; Nectary scale, outgrowth of carpel in flowers where nectar is produced (especially in Crassulaceae); A thin, dry, membranous body, commonly glabrous, resembling the scales…