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PAPILIONACE [2 records]

Record 1 2001-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Botany
DEF

Describing a corolla having a standard, wings, and keel, as in the peculiar corolla of many Leguminose.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Botanique
OBS

[Se dit d'une] corolle irrégulière en forme de papillon, composée de 5 pétales inégaux; 1 étendard, 2 ailes et 1 carène formée de 2 pétales plus ou moins soudés.

Spanish

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Record 2 1979-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fungi and Myxomycetes
DEF

Variegated; mottled; marked with different colors ...

OBS

as the lamellae of some species of Panaeolus mottled with black spores ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Champignons et myxomycètes
DEF

[...] lames des chromosporés (par exemple des Panaeolus) [qui], du fait de la maturation non simultanée des spores [...] sont, telle une aile de papillon, marbrées de plages plus ou moins foncées.

Spanish

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