sphacelate
— Verb
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～ undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
Sphacele calycina
— Noun
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～ California plant with woolly stems and leaves and large white flowers
Sphacele
— Noun
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～ a dicotyledonous genus of the family Labiatae
Sphacelotheca
— Noun
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～ genus of smut fungus
Sphacelotheca reiliana
— Noun
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～ smut fungus attacking heads of corn or sorghum and causing a covered smut
sphacelus
— Noun
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～ necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass
sphacelus
— Noun
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～ the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
Sphaeralcea
— Noun
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～ large genus of chiefly tropical herbs with showy flowers and mostly globose fruits: globe mallows
Sphaeralcea coccinea
— Noun
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～ false mallow of western United States having racemose red flowers; sometimes placed in genus Malvastrum
Sphaeralcea fasciculata
— Noun
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～ shrub of coastal ranges of California and Baja California having hairy branches and spikes of numerous mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea
Sphaeralcea remota
— Noun
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～ a rare mallow found only in Illinois resembling the common hollyhock and having pale rose-mauve flowers; sometimes placed in genus Sphaeralcea
Sphaeriaceae
— Noun
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～ parasitic fungi having globose and sometimes necked or beaked perithecia
Sphaeriales
— Noun
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～ large order of ascomycetous fungi usually having a dark hard perithecia with definite ostioles; in more recent classifications often divided among several orders
Sphaerobolaceae
— Noun
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～ monotypic family of fungi in which the more or less spherical gleba is forcibly ejected at maturity
Sphaerocarpaceae
— Noun
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～ liverworts with bilaterally symmetrical gametophytes; sometimes placed in the order Jungermanniales
Sphaerocarpales
— Noun
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～ small order sometimes included in the order Jungermanniales
Sphaerocarpos
— Noun
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～ type genus of Sphaerocarpaceae; liverworts with small many-lobed usually orbicular thallus
Sphaerocarpus
— Noun
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～ type genus of Sphaerocarpaceae; liverworts with small many-lobed usually orbicular thallus
Sphagnales
— Noun
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～ coextensive with the genus Sphagnum; in some classifications isolated in a separate subclass
sphagnum
— Noun
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～ any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat