A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.
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Dogbane
A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.
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Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collecti…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.Same as Callosity
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The covering of a flower. See Flower.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
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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.The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speec…
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The wood of the agalloch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlet…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A numerous and widely distributed genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the order Cypreaceae; the sedges.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc.,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.One of the two principal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are at…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: small, genus, perennial, herbaceous, plants.A genus of herbaceous composite plants, having the achenes two-horned and remotely resembling some insect; tickseed. C. tinctoria, of…
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