A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.
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Hygrophyte
a plant that grows in a moist habitat
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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
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.Long ago.
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 plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aerophyte.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.The variety of life in a place or across the planet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A spheroidal body growing from a plant either above or below the ground (usually below), which is strictly a bud, consisting of a clus…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A plant or weed that grows in rivers; a species of Equisetum; also, the yellow frog lily (Nuphar luteum).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc.,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.One who, or that which, climbs
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A bivalve mollusk, with radiating ribs, of the genus Cardium, especially C. edule, used in Europe for food; -- sometimes applied to si…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: plant, grows, moist, habitat.A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original…
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