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_Cotyledons._ The foliar portion or first leaves (one, two, or more) of the embryo as found in the seed.
_Crateriform._ In the shape of a saucer or cup, hemispherical or more shallow.
_Creeping._ Running along or under the ground and rooting.
_Crenate._ Dentate with the teeth much rounded.
_Crenulate._ Finely crenate.
_Crested, Cristate._ Bearing an elevated appendage resembling a crest.
_Crown._ An inner appendage to a petal, or to the throat of a corolla.
_Cruciate._ Cross-shaped.
_Crustaceous._ Of hard and brittle texture.
_Cucullate._ Hooded or hood-shaped; cowled.
_Culm._ The peculiar stem of sedges and gra.s.ses.
_Cuneate._ Wedge-shaped; triangular with the acute angle downward.
_Cuspidate._ Tipped with a _cusp_, or sharp and rigid point.
_Cylindraceous._ Somewhat or nearly cylindrical.
_Cyme._ A usually broad and flattish determinate inflorescence, i.e.
with its central or terminal flowers blooming earliest.
_Cymose._ Bearing cymes or cyme-like.
_Deciduous._ Not persistent; not evergreen.
_Decompound._ More than once compound or divided.
_Dec.u.mbent._ Reclining, but with the summit ascending.
_Decurrent_ (leaf). Extending down the stem below the insertion.
_Decurved._ Curved downward.
_Decussate._ Alternating in pairs at right angles, or in threes.
_Definite._ Of a constant number, not exceeding twenty.
_Deflexed._ Bent or turned abruptly downward.
_Dehiscent._ Opening regularly by valves, slits, etc., as a capsule or anther.
_Deltoid._ Shaped like the Greek letter ?.
_Dentate._ Toothed, usually with the teeth directed outward.
_Denticulate._ Minutely dentate.
_Depressed._ Somewhat flattened from above.
_Di-, Dis-._ A Greek prefix signifying two or twice.
_Diadelphous_ (stamens). Combined in two sets.
_Diandrous._ Having two stamens.
_Dicarpellary._ Composed of two carpels.
_Dichotomous._ Forking regularly by pairs.
_Dicotyledonous._ Having two cotyledons.
_Didymous._ Twin; found in pairs.
_Didynamous_ (stamens). In two pairs of unequal length.
_Diffuse._ Widely or loosely spreading.
_Digitate._ Compound, with the members borne in a whorl at the apex of the support.
_Dimerous_ (flower). Having all the parts in twos.
_Dimidiate._ In halves, as if one half were wanting.
_Dimorphous._ Occurring in two forms.
_Dicious._ Unis.e.xual, with the two kinds of flowers on separate plants.
_Discoid._ Resembling a disk. _Discoid head_, in Compositae, one without ray-flowers.
_Disk._ A development of the receptacle at or around the base of the pistil. In Compositae, the tubular flowers of the head as distinct from the ray.
_Dissected._ Cut or divided into numerous segments.
_Dissepiment._ A part.i.tion in an ovary or fruit.
_Distichous._ In two vertical ranks.
_Distinct._ Separate; not united, evident.
