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Angiosperm

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

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Dicotyledon 76% connected

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

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Endogen 76% connected

A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distr…

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Exogen 76% connected

A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, and pith, the wo…

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Flower 76% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Madderwort 76% connected

A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.

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Monocotyledon 76% connected

A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.

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Angiospermous 74% connected

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

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Angiospermous 74% connected

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

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Bloom 70% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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Blossom 70% connected

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…

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Flower 70% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Gymnosperm noun · 86% connection

plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Anthocarpous adjective · 78% connection

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Autocarpian adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Benne noun · 78% connection

The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is ex…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Bicapsular adjective · 78% connection

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Bilocular adjective · 78% connection

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Bivalve noun · 78% connection

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Bladder noun · 78% connection

A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Blastocarpous adjective · 78% connection

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Boll noun · 78% connection

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Burr noun · 78% connection

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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Bush verb · 78% connection

To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the gr…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, inclosed, pericarp.
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