plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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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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any of various usually poisonous plants of the genus Aconitum having tuberous roots and palmately lobed leaves and blue or white flowe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.Pertaining to starch; of the nature of starch; starchy.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.densely hairy perennial of central North America having edible tuberous roots
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.An umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.any of several plants of or developed from the species Dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.A genus of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: edible, starchy, tuberous, root, taro.
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