A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.
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Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collecti…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.Same as Callosity
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The covering of a flower. See Flower.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
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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.The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speec…
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A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.A west Indian plant of the genus Maranta, esp. M. arundinacea, now cultivated in many hot countries. It said that the Indians used the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.A gigantic African tree (Adansonia digitata), also naturalized in India. See Adansonia.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.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: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also pucc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.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: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.Having the form a piece of turf, i. e., many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.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: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.A perennial herb (Tussilago Farfara), whose leaves and rootstock are sometimes employed in medicine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thick, edible, rootstock, elephant, s-foot.Extending far below the surface; of great perpendicular dimension (measured from the surface downward, and distinguished from high, wh…
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