Haustorium: alternatives and connections

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

Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.

Growing, forming, or existing in the air, as opposed to growing or existing in earth or water, or underground; as, aerial rootlets, ae…

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergr…

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well…

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one-side…

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pes…

the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet)

To seek after plants for botanical investigation; to study plants.

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.

The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing p…

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surf…

A suckerlike organ at the base of the abdomen of insects belonging to the Collembola.

To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length.

A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).