Category: S
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Sarcotesta
Fleshy layer developed from the outer seed coat.
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Sarcocarp
Succulent fleshy part of a stone fruit or drupe [old-fashioned, rarely used term].
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Sapwood
New living outer wood, as distinct from the heartwood.
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Saprophytic
Obtaining all nutrition from decaying matter. Of a plant, usually lacking chlorophyll, that lives on dead organic matter. Obtaining food from nonliving plants or animals. Referring to an organism which lives on dead or decaying tissue.
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Saprophyte
Plant that obtains some or all of its nutrition from the substrate through mycorrhizal fungi; more accurately known therefore as an achlorophyllous mycotroph or a heteromycotroph; readily identifiable by lack of leaves and usually by the absence of chlorophyll. A plant living off dead or decaying organic matter and usually lacking chlorophyll. Colloquial term for…
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Sapling
A very young tree.
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Samaroid
Resembling a samara, although the wing may surround the seed chamber.
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Samara
A dry indehiscent fruit with a wing (longer than the seed-bearing part) developed to one side (as in Acer pseudoplatanus, the sycamore). A winged fruit. Dry fruit with wings that do not open when mature (as maple and ash seeds).
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Salver-shaped
(Of a calyx or corolla) with a slender tube and an abruptly widening limb of free petal or sepal lobes spread flat.
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Saline
Salty, containing sodium chloride. Containing or pertaining to salt. Saline solution consists of sodium chloride and distilled water, a 0.9% solution of sodium chloride. Referring to or containing salt. Containing a salt especially sodium chloride. N. solution containing sodium chloride used as a plasma substitute and a means to correct electrolyte imbalances. A solution of…