plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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Giant scrambling fern
large scrambling fern forming large patches to 18 feet high; Pacific region and China
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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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large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous roo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.A solid measure, equivalent to 128 cubic feet; a pile of wood, or other coarse material, eight feet long, four feet high, and four fee…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.large scrambling fern forming large patches to 18 feet high; Pacific region and China
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.A species of deer (Elaphurus Davidianus) found in china. It is about four feet high at the shoulder and has peculiar antlers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.A swamp or low tract of land inundated with water and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.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: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.Shaped like a fern or like the parts of a fern leaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, scrambling, fern, forming, patches.
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