plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
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(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(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
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.plants having seeds in a closed ovary
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
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The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.An elementary substance, not metallic in its nature, which is present in all organic compounds. Atomic weight 11.97. Symbol C. it is c…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.a heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances; absorbed from the air by plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.A term sometimes applied to the decomposition of organic substance into more simple bodies, by the use of chemical agents alone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, capable, synthesizing, food, simple.
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