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Spring Flora of Oklahoma 
Crenate—With rounded teeth. 
Crenulate—Minutely crenate. 
Creeping—Running along at or near the surface of the ground and 
rooting. 
Crustaceous—Hard and brittle. 
Cuculate—Hooded, or hood-shaped. 
Cuneate—W edge-shaped. 
Cuspidate—With a sharp stiff point. 
Cyathium—A cuplike inflorescence, as in the spurges. 
Cyme—An inflorescence of the determinate type, the central flower 
developing first. 
Cymose—Having cymes; or like cymes. 
Deciduous—Falling away at the end of the growing period. 
Decompound—More than once compound. 
Decumbent—With an inclined position but the end ascending. 
Decurrent—Applied to an organ extending along the sides of an¬ 
other. 
Deflexed—Bent or turned abruptly downward. 
Dehiscence—The opening of an ovulary, sporangium, or pollen sack 
for the discharge of the contents. 
Dehiscent—Opening regularly by valves, slits, etc., as a capsule 
or anther. 
Deliquescent—Dissolving or liquefying. 
Deltoid—Broadly triangular. 
Dentate—With outwardly projecting teeth. 
Denticulate—Finely toothed. 
Depressed—Somewhat flattened from above. 
Determinate—Definite or fixfed, as when a flower develops at the end 
of a stem. 
Diadelphous—Having the stamens united into two sets. 
Dichotomous—Two-forked. 
Dicotyledonous—Having two cotyledons. 
Di-dynamous—Applied to stamens when in two pairs of unequal 
length. 
Diecious—Having the staminate flowers and the carpellate flowers 
on separate plants. 
Dioecious—Same as diecious. 
Diffuse—Loosely spreading. 
Digitate—Diverging like the spread fingers. 
Dimorphous—Of two forms. 
Discoid—Resembling a disk. 
Disk—A flattened enlargement of the receptacle of a flower or in¬ 
florescence ; the head of tubular flowers in the sunflowers and 
related plants. 
Dissected—Divided into many segments. 
