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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Science - Botany / bryophytes | |||||||
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4 +2 | costa / midrib |
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costa / midrib Explanation: Again, of course, plural "costas" or "midribs" in context. This is from the glossary of a Chilean document on bryophytes: "costa: nervio central de una hoja, siempre de más de una célula de espesor." http://www.cormabiobio.cl/6accionar/bibliotecas/documentos/B... (p. 150) "Most moss leaves have a costa (or midrib). In the acrocarps, a strong single costa is predominant. The costa originates from the base of the leaf" Bryophyte biology, ed. Arthur Jonathan, p. 79 http://books.google.es/books?id=fuOKCOlRngkC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA7... "The midrib (rachis) is the central rib of a leaf." http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/plants/glossary/in... There is a difference: the rachis is the central rib of a compound leaf and doesn't apply here. "Although variable in shape, moss leaves usually consist of a single cell layer and are traversed by a midrib that is always more than one cell in thickness" http://wtnhsplantpg.wikispaces.com/Bryophyte structure "In most simple thalloid taxa, cells of both the central polystratose midrib(= costa), and the thallus wings are uniformly chlorophyllose and thin-walled,without conspicuous trigones." Bryophyte Biology http://es.slideshare.net/adeladul/bryophyte-biology |
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