Part 120

Spathe, a large bract or pair of bracts (often colored) inclosing a flower-cluster.

Spinescent, ending in a spine or rigid point.

Spinulose, with diminutive spines.

Spur, a usually slender tubular process, from some part of a flower, often honey-bearing.

Staminate, having stamens, but no pistils.

Staminodium, a sterile stamen, or something taking the place of a stamen.

Stellate, star-shaped.

Sterile, barren; incapable of producing seed; a sterile stamen is one not producing pollen.

Striate, marked with fine longitudinal lines.

Subtended, supported or surrounded; as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an involucre.

Subulate, awl-shaped.

Succulent, fleshy and juicy.

Superior, growing above; a superior ovary is one wholly above and free from the calyx.

Terete, cylindrical.

Ternate, in threes.

Thyrse, a contracted or ovate panicle.

Thyrsoid, thyrselike.

Tomentum, dense, matted, woolly pubescence.

Trifoliolate, having three leaflets.

Tubular, tube-shaped.

Undulate, wavy.

Unisexual, of one sex; said of flowers having stamens only, or pistils only.

Urceolate, cylindrical or ovoid, but contracted at or below the open orifice, like an urn or a pitcher.

Valve, the several parts of a dehiscent pericarp; the doorlike lid by which some anthers open.

Ventricose, swelling unequally, or inflated on one side.

Versatile, swinging; turning freely on its support.

Villous, bearing long and soft, straight or straightish hairs.

Virgate, wandlike.