Gemmule: alternatives and connections

Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.

A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form.

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

Of or pertaining to a cotyledon or cotyledons; having a seed lobe.

flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

Having two cotyledons or seed lobes; as, a dicotyledonous plant.

A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetable kingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c wood bark, a…

A name given by Lestiboudois to dicotyledons; -- so called because the plumule is naked.

A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

Having a radicle which is not inclosed by the cotyledons or plumule; of or relating to an exorhiza.

A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

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…