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Dicotyledon

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

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Angiosperm 76% connected

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

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Mint 76% connected

The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

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Exogen 92% 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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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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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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Lobe noun · 86% connection

(botany) a part into which a leaf is divided

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Acotyledon noun · 78% connection

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

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Acotyledonous adjective · 78% connection

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

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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…

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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, divide, seed, lobes.
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Cicatricle noun · 78% connection

The germinating point in the embryo of a seed; the point in the yolk of an egg at which development begins.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, divide, seed, lobes.
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Cotyledonous adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, divide, seed, lobes.
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Dicot noun · 78% connection

flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, divide, seed, lobes.
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Dicot family noun · 78% connection

family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, divide, seed, lobes.
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Dicot genus noun · 78% connection

genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, divide, seed, lobes.
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Dicotyledonous adjective · 78% connection

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, seeds, divide, seed, lobes.
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Exorhiza noun · 78% connection

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

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