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.(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary
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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Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is ex…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush; as, to bush a piece of land; to bush seeds into the gr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.Of or pertaining to the grasses which are cultivated for their edible seeds (as wheat, maize, rice, etc.), or to their seeds or grain.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plants, seeds, closed, ovary.
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