Plants Dictionary
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An alphabetical listing of General terms and items. |
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Hood-like; helmet-shaped.
The plural of genus.
Knee-like; usually referring to the alternate, abrupt bends at the nodes of some stems; also referring to bent awns.
A group of related species, as the genus Ulmus (elm), the genus Syringa (lilac), embracing respectively all kinds of elms and all kinds of lilacs.
Swollen on one side; protuberant, often interrupting the radial symmetry of a structure.
Becoming smooth.
Smooth, in the sense of not possessing hairs.
A general term applying to any number of small protuberances, viscid dots, or secretions.
With glands.
Weakly glaucous.
Covered by a white or pale, often waxy, bloom.
Spherical; globe-like.
Circular.
With minute barbed bristles.
Tightly clustered, usually in reference to compact clusters of short-stalked flowers.
Similar to glomerate, but with smaller clusters.
A small, compact cluster.
The lowest two (sometimes one) empty scales subtending the usually fertile scales in grass spikelets.
Covered with a sticky exudation.
The fruit of most grasses; a caryopsis.
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Appearing to consist of tiny grains.
Granular.
Granular.
The hard, almost stony, cells, found in some fruits, especially pears.
Seed-bearing plant in which the ovules are borne on open scales.
The pistil or collective pistils of a flower; the female portions of a flower as a whole -- the corresponding term for stamens is the androecium.
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