plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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New World fern having woolly cinnamon-colored spore-bearing fronds in early spring later surrounded by green fronds; the early uncurling fronds are edible
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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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fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resemble…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also pucc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.fern of New Zealand and Australia having trailing fronds with dark green buttonlike leaflets
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.The bark of several species of Cinnamomum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinna…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.New Zealand with pinnate fronds and a densely woolly stalks; sometimes included in genus Todea
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.tropical Old World fern having glossy fronds suggestive of holly; sometimes placed in genus Polystichum
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.fern of eastern North America with pale green fronds and an aroma like hay
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: world, fern, woolly, cinnamon-colored, spore-bearing.
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