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  • Carnose

    Having the consistency of or resembling flesh.  

  • Carmine

    (Colour) a shade of red.  

  • Carinate

    With a long narrow ridge over the length of the surface. With a Keeled ; furnished with a ridge on one side.    

  • Carina

    Keel: long narrow ridge over the length of a flat or curved surface; Keel formed by the two lower petals in papilionoid flowers in Leguminosae/Fabaceae, these usually partly united or adherent. A keel; the two anterior petals of a papillionaceous flower. A structure shaped like the bottom of a boat, e.g. the cartilage at the…

  • Capsule

    Capsule

    A dry dehiscent fruit composed of two or more united carpels, opening by valves, slits or pores. A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel. A dry fruit formed from two or more carpels that splits at maturity to release the seeds. Dry fruit that splits open when ripe to scatter seeds. Dry,…

  • Capreolate

    Capreolate

    With tendrils [obscure term].  

  • Capitulum (plural capitula)

    A compact cluster of ± sessile flowers; the capitulum may be surrounded by specialised bracts, the involucre. A short head. A compact cluster of more or less sessile flowers. A dense head of tiny flowers without individual stalks (as in the Daisy and Teasel families), surrounded by an involucre of bracts. The rounded end of…

  • Capitulescence

    An aggregation of capitula as found in the Compositae/Asteraceae, usually simply referred to as an inflorescence.  

  • Capitiform

    Head-like, like the head of a pin (e.g. for a stigma); Collected into heads of flowers (as in Compositae/Asteraceae) [unusual term].  

  • Capitellate

    Diminutive of capitate.  

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