plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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Hare's-foot fern
A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock; -- whence the name.
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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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The seed of canary grass (Phalaris Canariensis), used for feeding cage birds.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluish or blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resemble…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.Gray; bluish gray.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.A fern of the genus Pteris, esp. the P. aquilina, common in almost all countries. It has solitary stems dividing into three principal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.A genus of composite herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.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.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), whose rootstock is used in medicine; -- also called pappoose root. The name is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: species, fern, davallia, canariensis, soft.
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