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Sap-replacement |
Treatment process by which the preservative solution is pushed by pressure into the butt-end of a fresh culm |
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Scabrous |
A surface that is rough to the touch due to the presence of stiff hairs, short and bristled. |
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Scale leaf |
Leaf-like sheathing organ for the protection of the rhizome. |
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Scandent |
Climbing on other vegetation serrate toothed like a saw |
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Secateur |
A specialised cutting tool |
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Serrate |
With a saw toothed edge or margin notched with tooth like projections |
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Shoot |
Young culm at an early stage of its development, before it elongates and turns woody |
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Shoot |
young culm at any stage of its development |
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Shrubby |
Plants with short and caespitose life form |
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Shrubby bamboo |
Erect short forms, bushy in nature, are very thin and grow up to a limited height |
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Sinuous |
Wavy or undulating shape; used to describe hairs or bristles. |
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Slats |
Strips of bamboo of thickness of 4mm or more, which are used in the manufacture of stripboards. |
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Slivers |
Strips of bamboo of thickness less than 1mm, which are used for weaving into mats. |
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Smoking |
A type of treatment in which the bamboo is exposed to smoke |
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Soft-rot |
A decay by fungi with special physiological abilities; the hyphae grow mostly inside the cell wall |
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Spacing |
The distance between the bamboo plants put out in a plantation |
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Species |
Basic unit of classification of living things; consists of all individuals that are closely related such that they appear very similar and often interbreed to produce offspring |
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Species Basic |
Unit of classification of living things; consists of all individuals that are closely related such that they appear very similar and often interbreed to produce offspring |
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Spike |
A simple indeterminate inflorescence with stalkless flowers along a single axis; the youngest are at its tip while the older ones are towards the base |
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Spikelet |
A secondary spike |
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Spinous |
Having spines |
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Stacking |
Arranging bamboo culms in a pile |
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Steeping |
Soaking in water wherein the culm is in an almost vertical position |
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Stem |
The principal axis of a plant from which buds and shoots are developed |
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Stigma |
The uppermost sticky part of the female reproductive organ of the plant; receives the pollen grains and aids in reproduction |
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Storey |
A horizontal stratum or layer of canopy in a plant community |
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Straggling |
Extremely divergent, spreading, very far apart |
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Striate |
Marked with longitudinal parallel lines as grooves or ridges |
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Style |
Narrow prolongation of the ovary which terminates in a branched or unbranched stigma |
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Subentire |
Very slightly toothed or lobed, almost entire. |
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Suborbicular |
Not very orbicular |
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Subscandent |
Semi-climbing |
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Subscandent |
Semi-climbing |
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Subtend |
Extending under |
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Subulate |
Awl-shaped, tapering from the base to the apex |
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Swollen |
Enlarged, bloated |
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Sympodial Clump |
branching in which the growing point in an inflorescence or dies,? growth being continued by a new lateral growing point.
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