plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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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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(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, 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, Nature and environment, Plants, 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, Nature and environment, Plants, 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, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, 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, Nature and environment, Plants, 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, Nature and environment, Plants, 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, Nature and environment, Plants, 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, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.(botany) a minute rudimentary plant contained within a seed or an archegonium
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Plants, Botany.any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by s…
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.plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary
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.(botany) either of the two parts of a bilabiate corolla or calyx
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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.especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
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.A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertica…
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: thin, scarious, projection, upper, sheath.
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