erose


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Synonyms for erose

having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

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Petals yellow, glabrous; lateral petals spreading or reflexed, with the claw 2-2.7 mm long and the limb 3-6 mm long and wide, flat to concave (especially the anterior pair), erose or coarsely toothed, eglandular all around margin; posterior petal spatulate, with the thickened claw erect, 2.5-4 mm long, widening distally without an apical constriction, the limb spreading to reflexed, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 2-3.2 mm wide, obovate, flat to recurved, erose and eglandular.
Lower lemma 1.8-2 x 0.5-0.7 mm, bicarenate, lanceolate, hyaline, glabrous, 0-3-nerved, acuminate apex; palea absent; upper lemma 1-2 x 0.1-0.6 mm, hyaline, glabrous on the margins, 1-nerved, acute apex, awned, awn 5-9 mm long; palea 0.6-0.9 x 0.2-0.5 mm, hyaline, glabrous , 0-nerved, erose apex.
ciliate-denticulate to erose) scales with a small central body and long-ciliate margins on the abaxial blade.
Segments obspatulate, erose (leaves like Cucurbitella asperata).
EROSE, RASP "IN STILL, ITS NIPS ARE SORE." Rambo was undoubtedly the first person to craft palindromic charade sentences, and he is still, so far as I know, the only person to do so.
1 cm wide, nervate, ecarinate, glabrous outside, sparsely brown-punctulate lepidote inside, margin hyaline and erose, apex acute; petals light green, narrowly oblong, strap shaped, twisted, ca.
Perigynia 5-6 mm long, 1.2-1.6 mm wide, narrowly elliptical to elliptic, smooth but sometimes distally sparingly hispidulous abaxially and adaxially, the margins scaberulent to ciliate-scabrous distally, whitish green or stramineous to brownish, 2 prominent veins and the others obscure or weak in the proximal half on both faces, gradually tapered to a puckered base (when dry); perigynium beak 0.4-0.8 mm long, smooth or appressed hispidulous proximally, the margins smooth or scaberulent, orifice erose. Achenes 3-3.6 mm long, 1-1.6 mm wide, compressed trigonous with oblong sides, the widest side shallowly concave, brownish except the apex pale-colored (stramineous) and conspicuously thickened.
A Mysore eyesore sore was, I saw, "Erose Rose" Yee, rosy Maya!