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  • Brachiate

    Brachiate

    With paired branches, those of a pair widely spreading, and at right angles to the next pair.  

  • Botuliform

    Sausage-shaped, long and cylindrical and curved inwards at both ends.  

  • Botryoidal

    Botryoidal

    Like a cluster of grapes.  

  • Bostryx

    Spiral cymose inflorescence in the shape of a ringlet, i.e. in three dimensions, with the lateral branches developing from the same side and in the same plane as the coil.  

  • Boss

    Knob or knob-shaped protuberance, usually on root, trunk or branch. A round circumscribed swelling or growth (e.g., a tumor) that becomes large enough to produce swelling.  

  • Borne

    Carried.  

  • Boreal

    Far northern, subarctic.  

  • Bordered

    With the margin a different colour.  

  • Bootstrap analysis

    In cladistics, a statistical method to estimate the margin of error.  

  • Bony

    Bony

    Dense and hard. Hard surface as in a bone. Relating to bones, or made of bone. Referring to a part of the body where the structure of the bones underneath can be seen.  

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