A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.
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Figwort
A genus of herbaceous plants (Scrophularia), mostly found in the north temperate zones. See Brownwort.
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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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A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.The wood of the agalloch.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bea…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus malus) cultivated in numberless varieties in the temperate zones.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.A genus (Actaea) of plants, of the order Ranunculaceae, native in the north temperate zone. The red or white berries are poisonous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-side…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.A genus of low herbs (Pinguicula) having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insec…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The spe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, herbaceous, plants, scrophularia, mostly.
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