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  • Coppice

    Coppice

    (Verb) to cut back to near ground level at regular intervals; (Noun) vegetation in which trees or shrubs are regularly cut to ground level, but resprout after cutting.  

  • Coppery

    Coppery

    (Colour) shiny brownish red.  

  • Copious

    Much, a lot, abundant.  

  • Copal

    Semi-fossilised tree resin.  

  • Convolute

    Convolute

    In flower bud aestivation meaning rolled in the length and overlapping, each segment enveloping the next, like a closed umbrella. Rolled up lengthwise, one edge over the other. Of a flower bud when petals are rolled in along their length and overlap, each segment enveloping the next.  

  • Convex

    With a rounded surface, like the outside of a bowl. Regularly rounded; broadly obtuse. Said of a cap of mushrooms. Curving towards the outside.  

  • Contrary

    In the opposite direction.  

  • Contraligule

    Membranous, ligule-like structure in Cyperaceae at the apex of the leaf-sheath on the side of the culm facing away from the leaf-blade.  

  • Contractile root

    Root that can shorten so as to keep the bulb, corm or rhizome at a particular level.  

  • Contracted

    (Of inflorescences) when narrow and dense. Either narrowed or shortened.  

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