plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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Bog moss
any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat
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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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That which is behind in payment, or which remains unpaid, though due; esp. a remainder, or balance which remains due when some part ha…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.The wood of trees, esp. of oaks, dug up from peat bogs. It is of a shining black or ebony color, and is largely used for making orname…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.a monument built to honor people whose remains are interred elsewhere or whose remains cannot be recovered
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.An oil obtained by distillation of peat, and containing various members of the pyridine series.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.A complex mixture of gases, of which the most important constituents are marsh gas, olefiant gas, and hydrogen, artificially produced…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: various, pale, ashy, mosses, genus.
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