Plants Dictionary
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An alphabetical listing of General terms and items. |
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Without bracts.
Off center, or one-sided.
Bearing stout, often bluntish, spines or prickles.
Without cilia.
Without glands.
Raised, often forming a ridge.
Solid but with an elliptical outline.
A circular shape which has been laterally compressed, widest about the middle.
Drawn out into a form much longer than wide.
With a shallow notch at the tip.
Pertaining to aquatic plants which have some portion of the plant extended out of the water.
Above water.
Confined to a small geographic area.
In a seed, the reserve food stored around, or next to, the embryo.
Pertaining to margins without crenation, serration, or dentition; even though the margin may be variously ciliate or pubescent. [Plate 4]
Having the margin undivided.
Lasting for one day or less.
The superficial layer of cells.
Flower with the calyx situated on the ovary.
Pertaining to the two-ranked arrangement of usually conduplicate leaves, overlapping in two ranks.
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Upright.
Belonging to the heath family.
Pertaining to margins which appear unevenly cut or incised, as if eroded or eaten.
Fading, disappearing in time.
Refers to having green foliage throughout the year.
Usually in reference to veins and nerves which run beyond the margin of the organ from which it originates; often as an awn or bristle.
To peel away in thin layers
Loosely shedding in thin or stringy layers.
Prolonged beyond the rim of an enveloping or confining structure.
Looking or facing outward.
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