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Frond

The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

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Foliage 76% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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Leaf 76% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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Leafage 76% connected

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

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Angiosperm noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Annual noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

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Apophysis noun · 86% connection

(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

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Bast noun · 86% connection

(botany) tissue that conducts synthesized food substances (e.g., from leaves) to parts where needed; consists primarily of sieve tubes

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Biennial noun · 86% connection

(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usuall…

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Blister noun · 86% connection

(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin

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Callus noun · 86% connection

(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

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Calyx noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of sepals of a flower collectively forming the outer floral envelope or layer of the perianth enclosing and support…

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Coma noun · 86% connection

(botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

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Corolla noun · 86% connection

(botany) the whorl of petals of a flower that collectively form an inner floral envelope or layer of the perianth; "we cultivate the f…

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Corona noun · 86% connection

(botany) the trumpet-shaped or cup-shaped outgrowth of the corolla of a daffodil or narcissus flower

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Embryo noun · 86% connection

(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium

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Fern noun · 86% connection

any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…

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Flowering plant noun · 86% connection

plants having seeds in a closed ovary

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Germ tube noun · 86% connection

(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination

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Leaf node noun · 86% connection

(botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

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Ligule noun · 86% connection

(botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap

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Lip noun · 86% connection

(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx

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Aggregate noun · 78% connection

A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

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Amphid noun · 78% connection

A salt of the class formed by the combination of an acid and a base, or by the union of two oxides, two sulphides, selenides, or tellu…

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Biorgan noun · 78% connection

A physiological organ; a living organ; an organ endowed with function; -- distinguished from idorgan.

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Brake noun · 78% connection

A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal…

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Branch noun · 78% connection

a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

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Bryozoan noun · 78% connection

sessile aquatic animal forming mossy colonies of small polyps each having a curved or circular ridge bearing tentacles; attach to ston…

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Caudex noun · 78% connection

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.

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Cleche adjective · 78% connection

Charged with another bearing of the same figure, and of the color of the field, so large that only a narrow border of the first bearin…

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Company union noun · 78% connection

a union of workers for a single company; a union not affiliated with a larger union

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Compound noun · 78% connection

That which is compounded or formed by the union or mixture of elements ingredients, or parts; a combination of simples; a compound wor…

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Differentiation noun · 78% connection

The gradual formation or production of organs or parts by a process of evolution or development, as when the seed develops the root an…

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Female fern unknown · 78% connection

a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries; lady fern.

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