A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.
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Ligule
The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
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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.A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.
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.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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the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality; "our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a bu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.Pertaining to that mode of projection in drawing in which the rays of light are supposed to fall obliquely on the plane of projection.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other spe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve which bind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own special sheath,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Sou…
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