(botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens
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any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves
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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, Botany.(botany) development of an embryo without fertilization; especially the development in some ferns of a sporophyte from the gametophyte…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, 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, 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, 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, Botany.(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Botany.(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
Used in the same subject area: Biology, 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, Botany.(botany) the process in some plants of parts growing together that are usually separate (such as petals)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, 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, Botany.(botany) outer tissue of bark; a protective layer of dead cells
Used in the same subject area: Biology, 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, 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, Botany.(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Botany.(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Botany.(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Botany.(botany) a plant product that acts like a hormone
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a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.growth from increase in cell size without cell division
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metaz…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.a thin membrane (a double layer of lipids) enclosing the cytoplasm of a cell; proteins in the membrane control passage of ions (like s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.T cell with CD8 receptor that recognizes antigens on the surface of a virus-infected cell and binds to the infected cell and kill it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.a cell formed by the division or budding of another cell; "anthrax grows by dividing into two daughter cells that are generally identi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: class, plant, hormones, promote, cell.
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