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- Taxon
- Term applied to any taxonomic group at any taxonomic rank.
- Terete
- Cylindric and slender, as the normal culm of a grass plant.
- Terminal
- Borne at or belonging to the extremity or summit; distal.
- Tessilate
- A surface marked with square to rectangular depressions.
- Tiller
- An erect, lateral shoot.
- Tomentose
- Vestiture of dense, short, soft, matted hairs.
- Transverse
- Crossing the width of an object.
- Triad
- A group of three, as applied to spikelets of Chrysopogon or Hordeum. Consists of a sessile spikelet and two pedicellate spikelets. In Chrysopogon this represents a reduced racemose branch.
- Triangular
- Three-sided.
- Truncate
- The apex or base of a structure that is flat or ends abruptly. It appears to be cut off.
- Tuberculate
- Bearing small projections or warty protuberances.
- Tufted
- Caespitose; bunched.
- Turgid
- Swollen; appearing to be filled from within.