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Incurved :: Incurved (a.) Bending gradually toward the axis or center, as branches or petals..

Standard :: Standard (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.

Saxifraga :: Saxifraga (n.) A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage..

Rotate :: Rotate (a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one..

Oppositipetalous :: Oppositipetalous (a.) Placed in front of a petal.

Tube :: Tube (n.) The narrow, hollow part of a gamopetalous corolla..

Macropetalous :: Macropetalous (a.) Having long or large petals.

Pepper :: Pepper (n.) The plant which yields pepper, an East Indian woody climber (Piper nigrum), with ovate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth..

Centripetal :: Centripetal (a.) Progressing by changes from the exterior of a thing toward its center; as, the centripetal calcification of a bone..

Incised :: Incised (a.) Having deep and sharp notches, as a leaf or a petal..

Obcordate :: Obcordate (a.) Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf..

Andropetalous :: Andropetalous (a.) Produced by the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus..

Isostemonous :: Isostemonous (a.) Having exactly as many stamens as petals.

Flake :: Flake (n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes..

Gamopetalous :: Gamopetalous (a.) Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

Viola :: Viola (n.) A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets..

Petal :: Petal (n.) One of the expanded ambulacra which form a rosette on the black of certain Echini.

Cassideous :: Cassideous (a.) Helmet-shaped; -- applied to a corolla having a broad, helmet-shaped upper petal, as in aconite..

Lamina :: Lamina (n.) The blade of a leaf; the broad, expanded portion of a petal or sepal of a flower..

Recurved :: Recurved (a.) Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals..

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