plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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microscopic plants; bacteria are often considered to be microflora
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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.(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) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
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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A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.Small, generally microscopic, vibrating appendages lining certain organs, as the air passages of the higher animals, and in the lower…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.One of the microscopic particles resembling crystals, consisting of protein matter, which occur in certain plant cells; -- called also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.Deviation from a horizontal line; gradual descent of surface; inclination downward; slope; -- opposed to acclivity, or ascent; the sam…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.color for microscopic study; "The laboratory worker dyed the specimen"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: microscopic, plants, bacteria, considered.Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial ge…
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