plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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tropical Africa to Australasia and Polynesia
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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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One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.A tropical plant (Cajanus indicus) and its edible seed, a kind of pulse; -- so called from Angola in Western Africa. Called also pigeo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.A bird of the family Bucconidae, allied to the Cuckoos, having a large, conical beak swollen at the base, and bearded with five bunche…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.giant epiphytic or lithophytic fern; Asia to Polynesia and Australia
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.ornamental plant of tropical South Africa and South America having stalks of orange and purplish-blue flowers resembling a bird
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with wh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.tallest living quadruped; having a spotted coat and small horns and very long neck and legs; of savannahs of tropical Africa
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.A tenacious, elastic, gummy substance obtained from the milky sap of several plants of tropical South America (esp. the euphorbiaceous…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.One of the Chromidae, a family of fresh-water fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa. Some are valuable food fish…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tropical, africa, australasia, polynesia.
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